Waite Research Stories
Variable water cycles have a greater impact on wheat growth and soil nitrogen response than constant watering
Research has found cycling water availability from wet to dry reduced plant growth in wheat more than maintaining a constant level of drought, suggesting plants, like people, struggle with change
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Plant discovery opens frontiers
University of Adelaide researchers at the Waite campus have discovered a biochemical mechanism fundamental to plant life that could have far-reaching implications for the multibillion dollar biomedical, pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnology industries
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Aussie rootstocks make their debut
A recently released study by CSIRO Agriculture and Food focused on breeding and selecting new locally adapted rootstocks has had resounding success, with three new rootstocks to be released
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Wild barley reveals drought tolerant traits that could improve elite cultivars
A team of scientists from the University of Adelaide, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg have identified beneficial alleles from wild barley that can be used for improving drought tolerance
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AWRI vintage trials wrap up
As vintage winds up across much of Australia, AWRI researchers are also starting to pack up their high vis vests and safety boots, as they finalise a range of vintage trials
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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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