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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IdentifyLife and Atlas of Living Australia joint release
Posted on behalf of Lynne Sealie, Communication Manager, Atlas of Living Australia. Photos available. “The beginning of wisdom is to call a thing by its right name.” Chinese proverb IdentifyLife …
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The Eternal Order in Nature: The Science of Botanical Illustration
Botanical illustration incorporates an extraordinary range of plant representations from flower paintings to finely detailed drawings of plants used for botanical purposes. As an artform it is often …
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Improving wheat yields for global food security
Issued by CSIRO Ref 11/81 With the world’s population set to reach 8.9 billion by 2050, CSIRO scientists are hunting down and exploiting a number of wheat’s key genetic traits in a bid to …
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