From his formative years growing up in New Zealand, Keith Sainsbury had an intense interest in the sea. He combined […]
Dr Helen Newton Turner (originally an architect), radically changed merino sheep breeding in Australia. Encouraged by Ian Clunies Ross, at […]
Rabbits were introduced to Australia in 1859 by a wealthy Victorian grazier keen on the sport of hunting. Hunters, however, […]
CSIR saved apple producers £100 000 a year by discovering how to avoid bitter-pit, a disease that causes brown, sharply […]
Geoffrey Smithers, and his team at Food Science Australia, has consistently delivered targeted research outcomes to assist the Australian food […]
One of the big puzzles in plant biology had been the mechanism which causes plants to flower when they're subjected […]
In the 1990s, a small industry-focused research team at CSIRO Plant Industry in Canberra, led by Peter Waterhouse, was investigating […]
The production of cattle for the tropics had its genesis in the 1930s when RB Kelley established that zebu cattle […]
Why do some plants and animals tolerate cold stress while others succumb? The answer to this question has applications from […]
