44 News & Press Releases found
CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation News
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New research supersite will tell woodlands climate story
An exciting new research Supersite will use a climate station to monitor Western Australia`s 16 million hectare Great Western Woodland (GWW). The CSIRO and the Department of Environment and Conservation WA (DEC) are leading the establishment of the ...
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Closing the phosphorous-efficiency gap
Ways to reduce the costs of phosphorus fertiliser use on farms – critical for sustaining high agricultural production in many Australian farming systems – have been identified in a new suite of journal papers. The price for phosphorus ...
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Boost for high rainfall zone wheat research
Research into developing more productive wheat varieties in Australia has been given a major boost following an equity investment in HRZ Wheats Pty Ltd by one of the nation`s leading agricultural disease and pest control companies, Dow AgroSciences ...
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New approach to sustain `forage` fishing
Reduced catches of small oceanic `forage` fish like sardines and anchovies may be required in some ocean areas in order to protect the larger predators that rely on these species for food. This is a finding of the first major study of the ecosystem ...
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War on willows
Willows are major environmental weeds of riverbank habitats across much of south-eastern Australia. They obstruct water flow, increase water temperature, change water chemistry and can displace native riverine plant species. A CSIRO project looking ...
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Improving wheat yields for global food security
With the world’s population set to reach 8.9 billion by 2050, CSIRO scientists are hunting down and exploiting a number of wheat’s key genetic traits in a bid to substantially boost its grain yield. The rate of wheat-yield ...
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New approach to sustain ‘forage’ fishing
Reduced catches of small oceanic ‘forage’ fish like sardines and anchovies may be required in some ocean areas in order to protect the larger predators that rely on these species for food. This is a finding of the first major study of ...
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Major breakthrough on how viruses infect plants
CSIRO plant scientists have shed light on a problem that has puzzled researchers since the first virus was discovered in 1892 – how exactly do they cause disease? In a major breakthrough that helps us better understand how viruses ...
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Cattle plague`s defeat holds valuable lessons
The Secretary of the Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme (GREP) from 2000 to 2007, Dr Roeder, will discuss the success of the campaign – regarded as one of the most important achievements in veterinary history – when he presents ...
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Research sheds new light on methane emissions from the northern beef herd
New CSIRO research indicates that the amount of methane emitted from cattle fed on tropical grasses in northern Australia is up to 30 per cent less than figures currently used to calculate the northern cattle industry’s contribution to ...
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Ants and termites boost dryland wheat yields
"Ants and termites perform the same ecosystem service functions in dryland agriculture that earthworms perform in cooler and wetter areas, but the potential for ants and termites to provide these benefits has received little attention until now," ...
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‘Seeding’ the next generation of smart materials
Working with a team of international collaborators, Dr Paolo Falcaro and Dr Dario Buso from CSIRO’s Future Manufacturing Flagship have developed a revolutionary way to control the growth, and provide additional functionality, to a family of ...
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Animal trackers make tracks for Hobart
European eels navigate to ocean currents and make deep dives to dodge predators on their 5000 kilometre migration from Ireland to Bermuda to breed. Scientists have learned these quirks of nature by fitting animals with electronic recording and ...
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CSIRO and Chinese academy of sciences join forces
Scientists from CSIRO and CAS will meet in Australia next week to discuss and plan for future research collaborations, with a focus on rice and wheat, which along with corn make up the three most widely grown food crops in the world. Leading CSIRO ...
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Animal reproduction research to transform industry
Being able to produce more animals of the desirable sex to re-stock the herd, pond or sea cage has been a long-held goal of industry, as have cost effective and welfare-friendly ways to control unwanted animal pregnancies. Thanks to new research ...
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Trialling ocean temperature forecasts for fish farms
While land farmers have used seasonal forecasting for nearly a decade, marine farmers in south-east Australia have sought the technology for a region identified as a climate change hotspot, with rates of ocean warming up to four times the global ...
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Measuring forestry`s impact on water availability
Undertaken by a team of CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship scientists for the National Water Commission (NWC) and Forest & Wood Products Australia, the project developed modelling tools to provide greater confidence in estimating the ...
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CSIRO joins global fight against pandemic threats
In a collaborative effort between the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and international and Indonesian scientists, a research team from CSIRO recently used a pioneering technique known as antigenic cartography to ...
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CO2-chomping microbes battling for ocean iron
Research published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science explores the relationship between iron, which limits primary productivity in vast regions of the ocean, and its uptake by phytoplankton species. It has identified how ...
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New crop of plant scientists emerges at CSIRO
Under the CSIRO Plant Industry Summer Student Program, 17 students are engaged in a range of important agricultural research projects designed to discover, for example, how high temperatures affect crops and the genetic bases of crop development. ...