2019

Agriculture and Food Seminars for 2019

Dealing with fruit as your neighbor at times of climate change

Associate Professor Alon Samach, Plant Science and Genetics in Agriculture Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel CSIRO McMaster Fellow 4th December 2019

Precision Ag Knowledge Transfer – the journey of one AgTech startup, FluroSat

Dr Anastasia Volkova - FluroSat 26 November 2019

Providing close support to the California statewide program to contain citrus HLB: a case study in applied interdisciplinary science

Dr Neil McRoberts - University of California, Davis Monday, 25 November 2019

Why cell walls are important in agriculture and food

Dr Filomena Pettolino, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Group Leader 19 November 2019

Engineering nitrogenase into plants: 50 years of research and hints of success

Dr Craig Wood - CSIRO 05 November 2019

The Australian cotton industry – improving on-farm sustainability

QUT's Zoe Mellick explains the Australian Cotton Sustainable Value Chain Analysis (ACSVCA) 22 October 2019

Social license seminar series: environmental impacts of Australian agriculture

Ed Charmley & Peter Hunt - CSIRO 8 October 2019

Understanding and engineering broad-spectrum disease resistance in crops

Ricky Milne - CSIRO 10 September 2019

Counter-Intuitive Science Communications Strategies to Reach Public Audiences

Prof. Kevin Folta - Uni of Florida 29 August 2019

Arabidopsis leaf hairs and cotton fibers: translating basic cell biology research to crop improvement

Dan Szymanski, Purdue University USA 27 August 2019