Achievements

Overview Australia has adopted a strategy to maintain safe levels of cadmium in its agricultural soils and produce: an important move in ensuring safe food for Australians and a competitive edge for our agricultural exports. The National Cadmium Minimisation Strategy (NCMS), working under the Primary Industries Standing Committee (formerly SCARM), provides a consistent and coordinated […]

Wireless technologies have revolutionised the way we communicate and do business. From the first television broadcast to today’s adoption of mobile internet, the world is becoming increasingly interconnected. We have developed a new wireless technology called Ngara to deal with the growing threat of mobile data explosion and connecting communities in remote areas. The challenge: […]

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Soil organic carbon is a complex and varied mixture of materials and makes up a small but vital part of all soils. The first nationally coordinated program of soil carbon research has gathered a wealth of information on soil carbon stocks that will underpin Australia’s greenhouse gas accounting, carbon farming and sustainable agriculture. CSIRO scientist, […]

CSIRO and Boeing have developed a simple and effective ‘spray on and leave on’ re-coating technology that is used on every new Boeing commercial airliner. An aircraft’s topcoat is an impervious polyurethane skin which protects the plane from extreme environmental conditions encountered at high speeds in flight ‘ rain, hail, windblown dust and sand. As […]

By the end of the 1950s it was widely believed that all plants used the same pathway of photosynthesis. This pathway was called the Calvin cycle or photosynthetic carbon reduction (PCR) cycle and began with the incorporation of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the 5-carbon sugar ribulose bisphosphate (RuBP) to form a six-carbon intermediate which immediately […]

The ‘scribbles’ on scribbly gums are an icon of the Australian bush, but until recently very little was known about the cause of these distinctive scribbles. A team of CSIRO researchers were the first to uncover the mechanism by which the scribbles are made, along with the biology and lifecycle of the moths responsible. In […]

CSIRO maintains a major grapevine germplasm collection of many varieties and species at its Koorlong site near Mildura in the border region of New South Wales and Victoria. This collection underpins a grapevine breeding program that began in the 1960s. Although breeding for improved varieties of dried and table grapes is being phased out, breeding for novel, […]