Posted on behalf of CSIRO, Ref 11/82 Willows are major environmental weeds of riverbank habitats across much of south-eastern Australia. They obstruct water flow, increase water temperature, change …
Thursday's stories at the Botanic Congress
At the Botanical Congress today Secrets of a voodoo plant revealed – it could reshape Australian crops, and rescue African farmers from a disastrous plant parasite How cotton was born: a million …
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Thursday’s stories at the Botanic Congress
At the Botanical Congress today Secrets of a voodoo plant revealed – it could reshape Australian crops, and rescue African farmers from a disastrous plant parasite How cotton was born: a million …
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What’s living in your street?
The Atlas of Living Australia will tell you. Within 5 km of News Limited in Holt Street, Sydney for example there are reports of at least 3,500 different animal species, and 2,400 plant …
Fighting famine with botany
A family of plant hormones, known as the strigolactones has provided researchers with a new lead in the fight against one of the world’s most devastating plant parasites, the African witchweed or …
Shaping the plants of the future
A hormone that determines the size and shape of crops could improve harvests, and help in the control of a vampire plant according to Queensland researchers presenting their work today at the …