QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation
@QAAFI
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) is a research institute of The University of Queensland (#UQ) CRICOS 00025B (RT Not endorsement)
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http://qaafi.uq.edu.au 12-09-2011 00:03:46
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Ian Godwin
Cereal genetics, Gene edited sorghums, barleys and the endless quest to find the world's finest beer. Author: Good Enough to Eat? 2019, Royal Society Chemistry
Lee Hickey
Professor in Plant Breeding and Genetics @HickeyLab, Theme Leader for Predictive Agriculture @QAAFI @UQ_News, Editor @TheorApplGenet @plantgenome @FrontPlantSci
David Jordan
Australian sorghum breeder and geneticist currently working for the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation at the University of Queensland
Alison Bentley
Building crops for a changing future @ourANU. Team @ANUAgrifood & group leader @PlantSci_ANU. Women in Crop Science, Adjunct Prof @MurdochUni. Views my own.
Rajeev Varshney FRS
Agricultural Scientist | Director SABC & CCFI @mu_ccfi_biotech | Intl Chair Agri, Food Security @MurdochUni | Foodie | MovieBuff | Tweeting in personal capacity
#UQ 's Prof Robert Henry says all fruit have the potential to become seedless.
Seedless fruit varieties are dominating the consumer market, with the technology used to grow them rapidly improving and becoming more cost effective π₯
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QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation
From the outback to the Olympics: how native food is changing how we eat and buy. A #UQResearch feature on the inspiring work of Prof Yasmina Sultanbawa and Uniquely Australian Foods on Indigenous bushfood, especially the Kakadu plum.
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Have you heard of the bunya nut? A delicious native bushfood with huge potential. Discover how to eat it, its nutritional benefits and ways to protect the bunya pine under threat from a root rot.
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Uniquely Australian Foods Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland
Could grafting be a way to save the culturally significant bunya pine, under threat from root rot? Dr Jaqueline Moura Nadolny has documented the bushfood's nutritional properties and its potential for Indigenous enterprise.
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Uniquely Australian Foods Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland
Plum perfect: the native bushfood, Kakadu plum, shows promise at a sustainable and natural meat preservative. #UQResearch has found it's high antioxidant and antimicrobial properties make it the perfect candidate.
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Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland Uniquely Australian Foods CRC for Developing Northern Australia
Bringing new life to an ancient nut. Bunya nuts are a culturally significant bushfood with huge potential. Dr Jaqueline Moura Nadolny studied them for her PhD and found plenty of opportunities for Indigenous enterprise.
Discover more:
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Uniquely Australian Foods Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland
π₯ Avo look at this! We're leading an inbound trade mission with Avocados Australia showing a delegation of buyers from India everything Queensland's avocado industry has to offer. Queensland is responsible for 65 per cent of Australia's total avocado production
A huge congratulations to QAAFI's latest Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship recipients, Dr Lida Omaleki and Dr Eric Dinglasan.
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Image: Megan Pope
What do you get when you embed a genetic scientest and breeder with industry experience in a university mentoring PhD candidates? Research translation. Find out how Hannah Robinson from InterGrain did it at #UQ via the link.
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Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland
Lee Hickey
Scientific breakthrough on complicated sugarcane genome keeps biofuel dream alive. @ABCNews features important research on the mapping of the genome. #UQResearch .
@meganhughes20 @abbeyhalter
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CSIRO @SugarResearch Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland
