by Keryn | Apr 15, 2019 | Home page slider, News, Research stories, University of Adelaide, Women of Waite, WRI
In the last 20 years, the global honey bee industry has faced massive losses due to ‘colony collapse disorder’. Concern for the insects’ plight surfaces regularly in the media, inspiring multiple documentaries and science-fiction narratives.But European honey bees,...
by Keryn | Apr 15, 2019 | Home page slider, News, Research stories, University of Adelaide
A spike of elite wheat pollinator with many extruded anthers Waite researchers have identified new genetic markers linked to pollination traits in male wheat plants including anther extrusion, anther size, spikelet number and spike length. Published in Theoretical and...
by Keryn | Apr 9, 2019 | Careers, Home page slider, News, Students, Undergraduate, University of Adelaide
If you’ve been living under a rock (of ice perhaps), you might have missed the spike in the South Australian spirit industry. Perhaps it’s appropriate then, that the new ‘Adelaide Gin’ was created at the University of Adelaide’s Waite campus, home of the largest...
by Keryn | Apr 3, 2019 | Home page slider, News, University of Adelaide
The 2018 results of the national Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) process were released last week, with all of the University of Adelaide’s 67 assessed discipline areas rated at world standard (3*) or above. Forty-one of these achieved the maximum rating of...
by Keryn | Apr 1, 2019 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, Home page slider, News, Research stories, University of Adelaide, Women of Waite
Republished from the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility blog. Research in a new paper shows that the interaction of plants and soil fungi – mycorrhiza – does not always benefit the plant. Beneficial soil microbes such as mycorrhizal fungi help to improve plant...
by Keryn | Mar 29, 2019 | CSIRO, Home page slider, News, Research stories
The only centre of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere for accurately testing ancient groundwater up to a million years old has opened in South Australia. The Noble Gas Facility, built at Waite Campus in Adelaide, is now fully operational after a three-year build by...
