Waite Research Stories
Yes, we’re in a ‘bee crisis’—just not entirely as you know it.
‘Save the bees’ from what? And how exactly? A bee crisis breakdown by Dr Katja Hogendoorn, senior bee researcher at the University of Adelaide’s School of Agriculture, Food and Wine.
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Elite pollinator for hybrid wheat breeding
Waite researchers have identified new genetic markers linked to pollination traits in male wheat plants including plant height, anther size, spikelet number and spike length. This finding provides potential target selection markers for hybrid wheat breeding programs.
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Soil fungi may lead to ‘depressed’ plants
Research in a new paper shows that the interaction of plants and soil fungi – mycorrhiza – does not always benefit the plant.
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Noble gesture unlocks secrets of ancient groundwater
CSIRO’s Noble Gas Facility, built at Waite Campus in Adelaide, is now fully operational and the only centre of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere for accurately testing ancient groundwater up to a million years old
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Counting down to Australia’s top mildew resistant vines
CSIRO researchers at Waite are one step closer to discovering the nation’s top mildew resistant vines
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Research to investigate smoke taint from crop burn-offs on wine
The question of whether smoke from stubble burning has any effect on wine grapes will be tested as part of new research being conducted in South Australia’s wine regions.
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Adding water to grape must
Adding water to must appears to be an effective way to manage fermentation issues in juice with high sugar concentrations, a new AWRI study has found
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Twenty six new bee species discovered in the Australian Outback
South Australian researchers have discovered 26 new species of native bees from the outback of Australia. The new species belong to the subgenus Colletellus in the genus Leioproctus in the family Colletidae – the group of the silk bees.
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New complex carbohydrate discovered in barley
University of Adelaide researchers have discovered a new complex carbohydrate in barley. The first of its kind to be discovered in over 30 years, the cereal polysaccharide has potential applications in food, medicine and cosmetics.
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Genetic transformation of grapevines to test stress tolerance genes
Dr Mandy Walker and the team at CSIRO Agriculture and Food are using Agrobacterium as a vector to genetically transform grapevines
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