by Keryn | Apr 18, 2019 | News, University of Adelaide
WI4896 is a new barley variety bred by the University of Adelaide that has just been named Leabrook (PBR 2017/197), with yield and agronomic data now available from the National Variety Trials website (https://app.nvtonline.com.au/). Growers and other industry...
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 9, 2019 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, Careers, News, positions vacant, University of Adelaide, Women of Waite
Could you be our next Business Manager? Applications for this Adelaide-based role are now open.We are seeking a highly organised and outcome focused Business Manager to join our dynamic and multi-disciplinary team of experts at the APPF’s Adelaide node, The Plant...
by Keryn | Apr 3, 2019 | News, University of Adelaide, Women of Waite
SANE is a series of three events throughout the year that focuses on bringing together alumni to showcase the diverse career paths of our prominent sciences alumni.The inaugural event will be a talk and Question and Answer session focusing on Agriculture, Food and...
by Keryn | Apr 3, 2019 | News, Students, TERN, Undergraduate, University of Adelaide
SA Riverland, 28th April – 5th May 2019The TERN Surveillance Field Method Training provides hands-on experience to scientifically standardised, nationally accepted ecological monitoring methods and techniques.The Waite-based TERN team are currently accepting...
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 | News, University of Adelaide
The Wine Alumni network will be hosting a Wine Alumni Breakfast – to be held during the 17th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference in Adelaide. Date Tuesday 23 July 2019 Time 7.00am – 8.15am Venue Adelaide Convention Centre Tickets $50.00 (GST...
