by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 14, 2019 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, CSIRO, Historic Precinct, News, Partners, Students, Women of Waite, WRI
The Waite Research Institute hosted this year’s Peter Waite Day in the Urrbrae House gardens on Friday May 10. Held each year on the Friday closest to Peter Waite’s Birthday (May 9), the afternoon is an opportunity for people from across the campus...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 14, 2019 | CSIRO, News, Research stories
A recently released study focused on breeding and selecting new locally adapted rootstocks has had resounding success, with three new rootstocks to be released. The new rootstocks – tested with the codes C114, C113 and C20 – maintain productivity in replant situations...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Mar 29, 2019 | CSIRO, 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...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Mar 20, 2019 | CSIRO, News, SARDI, University of Adelaide
The National Soils Advocate, former Governor-General Major General The Honourable Michael Jeffery, visited the Waite precinct on Friday 15 March to meet soil researchers and HDR students as well as A/Professor Luke Mosley, current President of Soil Science...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Mar 14, 2019 | CSIRO, News, Research stories
Researchers are one step closer to discovering the nation’s top mildew resistant vines. After five seasons – and an original field of 1200 downy and powdery mildew resistant vines – a CSIRO team from Waite has narrowed the field to 20 red and 20 white berried...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Feb 13, 2019 | CSIRO, News
Precision Agriculture Tools (PAT) are a suite of tools developed by CSIRO for Precision Agriculture/Viticulture data analysis. PAT is a plugin for Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS), a free and open-source desktop geographic information system.The PAT plugin...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Dec 7, 2018 | AWRI, CSIRO, News, Students, University of Adelaide, Women of Waite, WRI
Why should we preserve trees in our cities and towns? Can we grow healthy crops in sandy soils? How important are insects to agriculture? Does the yeast a winemaker chooses really affect the wine produced? Can we really turn food waste into usable new products? Waite...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Dec 5, 2018 | CSIRO, News, Research stories, Women of Waite
Gene technology is being used to speed up the identification of positive genetic traits, that can then be used to more quickly screen vines for sodium and chloride tolerance bred through traditional methods. This is achieved using a common soil microorganism called...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Nov 21, 2018 | CSIRO, News
The Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology (ASVO) last week announced its Awards for Excellence winners for 2018. Two researchers from CSIRO Agriculture and Food here at Waite were among the award recipients. The inaugural Dr Peter May Award for most cited...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Nov 19, 2018 | CSIRO, News, Research stories
Variability in a vineyard should be embraced as an opportunity – and not seen as a negative – says one of the world’s leading precision viticulture experts. Dr Rob Bramley has been studying detailed vineyard variability for nearly two decades, and says the variability...