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24-11-2015
Cutting pampas down to size
Made possible through MPI’s Sustainable Farming Fund, researchers have found two planthopper insects and a fungus from South America as possible biocontrol solutions to attack pampas grass.
24-11-2015
Loscam Australia supports Foodbank, Swags for Homeless
Recently, two AU$20,000 cheques endorsed by China Merchants Charitable Foundation were presented by Daniel Bunnett, Executive Vice President for Australia and New Zealand, to support neighbourhood charity organizations, Foodbank and Swags for Homeless.
24-11-2015
Study finds plants need active social lives to stay healthy
Canadian plant science researchers, in collaboration with Montreal-based Inocucor Technologies Inc, have discovered new clues about the active social lives of plants, which use molecular signals to engage in constant life-enhancing conversations with thousands of microbes in their ecosystem.
24-11-2015
Fruit fly experts join Hort Innovation roadshow
A group of international and Australian fruit fly specialists, researchers and agronomists will embark on a roadshow to meet with Australian horticulture growers during November and December.
23-11-2015
USDA announces Grant awards for value-added business development
Vernita Dore, Deputy Under Secretary of Rural Development, announced that 258 farm businesses from 47 states, Puerto Rico, and the Western Pacific will receive $34 million in grants from the 2015 round of the Value-Added Producer Grants (VAPG) programme.
23-11-2015
Aussie melon growers back biosecurity, R&D levies
Australian melon growers have given the green light to funding for biosecurity and Research & Development.
23-11-2015
AgroFresh, Plant & Food Research take relationship to new level
Two organisations that have worked together in New Zealand for more than fourteen years to help grow the apple industry are taking their relationship to a new level in establishing a formal Science, Technology and Business Co-operation Agreement.
23-11-2015
Engineering student wins best plant biology talk
Max Plouviez, a biochemical engineering student from Massey University’s School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, has won this year’s Merck Best Student Talk Award at the November meeting of the Palmerston North Plant Biology Seminar Series.
20-11-2015
FYI: Dutch flower, plant exports reach €4.7bn
Dutch flower firms have seen exports of flowers and plants increase in the first ten months of this year, despite a downturn in imports in Russia, Germany and Austria
20-11-2015
Sound science point of difference for Waipara winemakers
More than two decades of soil science work in the Waipara area has been brought together in a document launched at a Vineyard Soils Day at Black Estate Vineyard this week.
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