August 09
CSIRO and the
Cotton CRC release FIBREpak, new guide to improve cotton quality
Aiming to lead
the world in agricultural modelling
July 09
Dr Lars Jermiin
appointed CEO Science Leader of the Genome Bioinformatics team
at CSIRO Entomology
CSIRO and USDA
awarded A$1.6 million grant to increase the understanding of
genes responsible for growth and yield in grasses for use as
bio-energy and food crops
Long-term
cooperation with leading Australian research institute CSIRO:
Bayer CropScience expands global R&D activities in seeds and
traits by setting up new research focus area in cereals -
Superior solutions for wheat farmers could be available as early
as 2015
Langfristige Zusammenarbeit mit führendem australischem
Forschungsinstitut CSIRO: Bayer CropScience weitet Forschung und
Entwicklung auf Getreide-Saatgut als weitere Kernkultur aus Neue
Lösungen für den Weizenanbau könnten bereits 2015 verfügbar sein
April 09
First
International Plant Phenomics Symposium
March 09
Climate change may
wake up ‘sleeper’ weeds
CSIRO and Agrifood
Awareness Australia host workshops on the science and regulation
of gene technology
February 09
Scientists
identify a wheat gene sequence which provides protection against
leaf rust, stripe rust and powdery mildew
December 08
Local seed is
not necessarily the best for revegetation, says CSIRO Plant
Industry scientist
Nature names
CSIRO crop researcher as one of five crop researchers who could
change the world
November 08
Pollinator
decline is not reducing crop yields just yet
Even plants
benefit from outsourcing
September 08
On the brink
of a new agricultural revolution
Helping grain
growers fight an army of pests
August 08
CSIRO enlisted to
avert global wheat supply crisis
July 08
Mustard – hot stuff
for natural pest control
Australian drought
report pushes alarm bells
June 08
CSIRO releases
report on climate change impacts and adaptation options for
Australian agriculture
Unlocking the
genome of world’s worst insect pest
New high-fibre
barley licensed to grow - Food manufacturers will soon have
access to a new CSIRO-bred barley variety which has significant
human health benefits
May 08
Brasil e Austrália
ampliam cooperaçăo em biotecnologia agrícola
April 08
Australian
researchers are a step closer to turning plants into
‘biofactories’ capable of producing oils which can be used to
replace petrochemicals used to manufacture a range of products
January 08
CSIRO Plant
Industry’s Dr Greg Constable receives “Outstanding Research in
Cotton Physiology Award”
December 07
Business
opportunities are emerging for new wheat varieties being
developed under the AUSGRAINZ alliance between CSIRO Plant
Industry and New Zealand’s Crop & Food Research
Australian
Plant Pest Database improved to protect agriculture
Building
disease-beating wheat
Adapting
agriculture to climate change
November 07
CSIRO report
confirms that biodiesel could reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Australia's
Cotton Catchment Communities CRC appoints Philip Armytage as its
new CEO
October 07
Arcadia
Biosciences and Australian research organizations enter research
and commercial license agreement for development of nitrogen use
efficient wheat
Australian
rainfall – a view of the future
New projections
for Australia’s changing climate
September 07
CSIRO Plant
Industry and Cotton Seed Distributors Ltd form the Cotton
Breeding Australia joint venture
Australia's
Prime Minister’s Prize for Science awarded to two CSIRO
scientists for their discovery and development of a gene
silencing mechanism
August 07
Cotton Australia
applies biotechnology to slash the amount of water needed to
grow cotton
Grain-based foods
could soon have highly targeted nutritional roles through
advances in gene technology
July 07
Big boost for high
fibre grains research: Australian research alliance to develop
new grain varieties with tailored fibre content
June 07
International joint
venture research project produces experimental wheat variety
with 70 per cent amylose content
May 07
CSIRO Plant Industry
and AgResearch sign collaborative agreement
Advancing the
application of genomics technologies for the selection and
development of high quality grains, including wheat and barley
Grains go on an even
bigger ‘health kick’
Narrow rows widen
chance of higher cotton yields
April 07
Delivering health
benefits through new cereal grains - CSIRO is developing
healthier high resistant starch wheats
March 07
Ecos magazine
debates the impact of GM crops 10 years on
New cotton breeder
joins CSIRO Plant Industry's award-winning team
Root focus set to
improve wheat production
AUSGRAINZ, the
grains research and development alliance between Australia’s
CSIRO and New Zealand’s Crop & Food Research, showcases future
grains
More accurate
assessments of the environmental risks associated with the
release of disease-resistant plants
February 07
Ancient genes
used to produce salt-tolerant wheat
January 07
Soil, roots and
‘bugs’– revelations from underground
December 06
Discovery of a DNA
marker for two key rust resistance genes enables breeding of more
effective rust resistant wheat varieties
November 06
A vital step towards
controlling crown rot in wheat
CSIRO, Limagrain and
GRDC announce partnership to accelerate the development of new
super-healthy wheat varieties
September 06
CSIRO research shows
that insect-resistant cotton may also be more water efficient
August 06
Biotech leader Professor
John Mattick wins CSIRO Eureka Prize
CSIRO is calling on
landowners and managers to join the fight against the European
blackberry, one of Australia’s most invasive and unfriendly weeds
Insect resistant cowpeas
are being developed by CSIRO Plant Industry to help provide a more
reliable food crop for sub-Saharan Africa
CSIRO Plant Industry is
on the hunt for regions of the wheat genome that can help wheat crops in
Australia 's northern wheat belt when water is limited
Research shows
canola's excellent potential as a grain and graze dual
purpose crop
July 06
Satellite data predicts
bleak year for Western Australian farmers
April 06
Prestigious award for
CSIRO cotton researchers
Grains Council of
Australia's Grains Week 2006: New wheat cultivars to meet yield
challenge
February 06
CSIRO's new
experimental
wheat variety has healthy potential
December 05
Size does matter and
it’s all in the genes - CSIRO researchers are investigating how that
knowledge can be used to produce larger seeds across a wide range of
crops
GM rice trial planted
in New South Wales
November 05
New soybean for
Queensland
Award-winning seed
coating provides growth benefits too
CSIRO's GM pea study
backs case-by-case risk assessment
CSIRO is NOT cutting
research funds to agriculture
October 05
CSIRO's RNAi 'gene
silencing' patents strengthened
September 05
Super
resistance to tackle biggest wheat disease
Higher rice
yields with no extra water
Australian
cotton growers access latest research
CSIRO cotton
breeders win innovation award
CSIRO's gene silencing
granted US patent
August 05
How barley deals with
aluminium
June 05
Harvesting new
chemicals from grain crops
Developing aphid
resistant legumes
CSIRO's BARLEYmax, a new
barley for better health
May 05
EPIDEV,
une association CIRAD-CSIRO autour de l'épigénétique végétale
April 05
Australian Office of the
Gene Technology Regulator:
Decision on issuing a
licence for application DIR 054/2004 -
limited and controlled
release of six GM wheat lines with modified grain starch characteristics
(CSIRO)
CSIRO develops plants that
produce DHA, a healthy omega-3 oil component normally only available
from fish sources
March 05
Australian and
Japanese researchers apply RNAi technology for gene replacement
in plants, develop world's only blue rose
Higher
wheat yields for Western Australia’s high rainfall zone
Asian exports to increase
with new Australian soybean
February 05
Eleven years of growing
plant science at the CSIRO Discovery Centre
January 05
Australia's HRZ Wheats
P/L to release new new rust-resistant wheat varieties in 2006
December 04
New frontiers in annual
ryegrass toxicity research
CSIRO saltbush study
prompts more questions
November 04
CSIRO research finds no
evidence that GM subterranean clover is greater weed risk
A look over the fence
helps farmers fight salinity
CSIRO in GM rice trials
plan
Aluminium tolerance
gene from wheat will accelerate the development of crops that can handle
soil acidity problem
White Gold, new
mungbean variety from CSIRO, could mean yield increases, larger grain
and improved disease resistance
Tiny wasp to control
silverleaf whitefly which devastates Australian vegetable and cotton
crops
October 04
Golden opportunity for
Australian mungbean farmers
Major award for
CSIRO Plant Industry cotton breeder Peter Reid
September 04
Australia leads in
increasing crop yields in water-scarce environments by targeting
physiological traits
Queensland's
Department of Primary Industries fast-tracks crop improvement in battle
against drought
Australian farmers turn
to fluid fertilisers
Australia joins global
wheat breeding team
Advances in 'gene
silencing' on agenda of CSIRO-hosted conference
CSIRO and the BOC Group
introduce new fumigant to replace gas that damages ozone layer
August 04
CSIRO scientist Unlocks
the ways insects pests survive without air
Queensland's seedling firm
wins 2004 SMART Award for outstanding achievement in agribusiness
June 04
Breeding better cotton at
CSIRO
Bacteria aids dryland
salinity fight
The dream
of every irrigation farmer
in Australia: the eight tonne wheat crop
CSIRO Plant Industry:
outsmarting wheat diseases and tailoring wheat to northern Australia
'High-vigour' wheat from
CSIRO puts weeds in the shade
April 04
The Australian
National University and CSIRO establish gateway to France
CSIRO licences
DNA-delivered RNAi gene silencing technology to Bayer
CropScience
Australian
OGTR receives application from CSIRO for evaluation under field
conditions of the cotton rubisco small subunit promoter driving a
reporter gene
March 04
CSIRO plant disease
discovery could save millions in breeding rust resistant plants
Cotton profits
increased by humble legume
Huge potential for
Graingene's water-efficient wheat in New South Wales
February 04
Longer storage and
shipping life for cauliflowers
Billion dollar benefit
from CSIRO grain storage research investment
January 04
CSIRO Plant Industry
researchers discover a gene that triggers flowering in cereals
December 03
CSIRO Plant Industry
develops simple high-throughput testing system that accurately
identifies wheat and barley varieties
Winter wheats: giving
Australian farmers more choice
Knowing when to flower:
discovery of a gene that triggers flowering in cereals
Benitec Ltd., CSIRO and
Queensland DPI reach milestone strategic agreement to commercialise
breakthrough gene silencing technology, an Australian biotech innovation
November 03
Longer storage and
shipping life for cauliflower
CSIRO in fight for GM
role
Australian HRZ Wheats
Pty. Ltd. to bread for high rainfall zones
Dr Jeremy Burdon
appointed Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry
A brilliant career's
rich harvest:
celebrating the career
of Dr. Jim Peacock, Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry
October 03
Satellites zoom-in on
pasture data
Cotton researcher
Dr Greg Constable
named
top Australian scientist
September 03
New drought tolerant
wheat variety gives more crop per drop
'Biofumigants' to help
beat the wilt
Cotton irrigation
software saves water
CSIRO crop geneticist
wins Science Minister's Prize for Life Scientist of the Year
July 03
New Bollgard® II GM cotton
reduces pesticide use by 75%, says CSIRO
June 03
CSIRO asserts ownership of
gene silencing technology
CSIRO looks to the future
with cereal research
Benchmarking for profitable,
sustainable grazing systems
Wild grasses lead to first
BYDV resistant wheat
April 03
CSIRO clinches Bayer
CropScience alliance
March 03
Graingene - new commercial
team in Australian grain research
CSIRO's new bioinformatics
facility expected to boost development of superior crops
February 03
CSIRO releases gene
silencing tools
Australian farmers value
satellite information to better manage their pastures
December 02
CSIRO's diamondback moth
research to benefit Australia's vegetable production
CSIRO cotton software
wins national award
Salt-tolerant wheat has
ancient roots
November 02
Australian Office of
Gene Technology (OGTR) approves three new applications for the
conditional release of GMOs
CSIRO celebrates 30
years of cotton research
Reading the rice
dictionary
September 02
In Southern Australia,
satellite imaging measures the amount of feed on the ground and estimate
how quickly pastures are growing
Australia's Office of
the Gene Technology Regulator receives four applications from CSIRO for
licences to undertake limited and controlled releases of different types
of genetically modified cotton into the environment
August 02
CSIRO presents strategy to
make Australia stronger global competitor in biotechnology research
Palm-off cotton pest
problems to 'CottonLogic'
July 02
Cosmic, a new grain fumigant
developed by the CSIRO
CSIRO Plant Industry
scientists zero in on 'green revolution' gene
CSIRO Entomology and the
Grains Research and Development Corporation form crop protection
alliance
May 02
Billion dollar benefit from
CSIRO grains research
April 02
New database to manage
pests better
January 02
Hay quality test a world
first for CSIRO
November 01
Beetles launched into
the blue
(3968)
October 01
Environmentally-friendly pesticide Green Guard goes global
September 01
CSIRO scientists are
winning the war against parasitic worms in wheat
Making better dough in
Canberra
August 01
Giant flower pots aid
salinity research
Trans-Tasman grain
alliance announced
June
01
Farming by satellite
'Hairpin RNA' beats plant viruses
April
01
New machine measures coating thickness
January
01
Wax block to stop farm pests
December
00
New Centre for Plant Architecture Informatics
will use advanced mathematics and high performance computing to create improved crops and lower pesticide
use
November
00
Making dollars from saline land
October
00
Australian Prime Minister's Prize for Science
awarded to CSIRO scientists for flowering gene discovery
September
00
Biodiversity and GMOs under watchful eyes
- CSIRO's seminar on the potential impacts of GMOs on Australia's biodiversity
August
00
Shrinking trees lead to designer timber
Australian
Researchers probe environmental impact of GMOs
July
00
New
CSIRO
pasture grass a boost for graziers
May
00
Green
technology to keep greens green
March
00
Food
Science Australia to collaborate with Flow International Corporation
to beat food poisoning microbes and create foods which stay fresh
longer
September 99
RhoBio signs a plant
biotechnology research agreement with CSIRO in Australia
June 99
Genetically
engineered food production gathers pace in Australia
March 99
Australians
seek facts on gene technology
CSIRO
welcomes gene conference outcome
November 98
Australian
farmers to benefit from biotechnology deal
June 98
CSIRO and
AgrEvo form strategic research alliance
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