Acknowledgement

Previous research:

This research on cabomba has been part of the projects ‘Biocontrol solutions for sustainable management of weed impacts to agricultural profitability’ (2016-2020) and ‘Underpinning agricultural productivity and biosecurity by weed biological control‘ (2019-2022), led by AgriFutures Australia (the trading name of the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC)). These projects have been supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment as part of its Rural R&D for Profit programme. SEQwater and the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries are also acknowledged for their financial support.

Contributors to this project to date are:

  • CSIRO: Kumaran Nagalingam (leader), Raghu Sathyamurthy, Michelle Rafter, Darren Kriticos, Noboru Ota, Tim Vance, Gio Fichera, Andrew White, Kerri Moore
  • QDAF: Joe Vitelli, Tobias Bickel
  • FuEDEI (Argentina): Guillermo Cabrera Walsh, Fernando McKay, Carolina Mengoni, Marina Oleiro
  • Fundacion Moises Bertoni (Paraguay): Myriam Velazquez
  • SEQWater: David T. Roberts, Jessica Doman