Agriculture, Food & Wine

Our agricultural, food and wine producers face a complex task: satisfying and sustaining a growing population, in an increasingly harsh natural environment and fiercely competitive global marketplace. Our research is revealing better ways.

We鈥檙e home to the southern hemisphere鈥檚 largest cluster of agricultural research expertise. We鈥檙e committed to helping the world feed 9 billion people by 2050. And we鈥檙e finding effective new ways for producers to cope with climate change, rising energy costs, environmental degradation and more.

Impact stories

New Weapons in the Battle Against Herbicide-Resistant Weeds

The Soares da Costa team from the University of 亚洲色吧鈥檚 Waite Research Institute has developed new herbicidal compounds that will stop resistant weeds in their tracks.

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Assembling haplotypes faster than ever with HaploMaker

A team from the Biometry Hub at the University of 亚洲色吧 has developed an improved algorithm for haplotype assembly that could help researchers more accurately track plant genetic variation.

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