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10 May 2012 -- QAAFI announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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4 May 2012 -- QAAFI Director, Professor Robert Henry, officiated at three key events in the Indian seed capital of Aurangabad on 23 April.
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26 April 2012 -- A QAAFI-led team has developed a comprehensive research program aimed to protect Australia's $450 million banana industry.
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16 April 2012 -- AN INTERNATIONAL meeting of plant breeders, genetic specialists and commercial growers has cautioned that Australia’s world-significant bounty of naturally occurring rice relatives is being under-utilised in current crop-breeding programs.
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13 April 2012 -- An expert UQ plant virologist has distinguished himself by co-editing and contributing chapters to an authoritative new reference work, detailing one of the world’s most hotly studied virus families.
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10 April 2012 -- A three-year research effort by UQ and Qld Government scientists to improve summer yields in Australian pulses will benefit some of Indonesia’s poorest farmers.
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27 Feb 2012 -- Good canopy growth in peanut crops following recent rainfall may mean increased risks of foliar diseases or stress-related aflatoxin contamination further into the growing season in the event of a dry spell.
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10 Feb 2012 -- QAAFI has appointed a Cornell University Business School graduate with impeccable agribusiness credentials to raise awareness of the commercial benefits of science within Australia’s vital food and agriculture sectors.
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7 Feb 2012 -- THE United States Navy's Director for Operational Energy today visited The University of Queensland for discussions on UQ's world-leading biofuels research.
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7 Feb 2012 -- QAAFI scientists have discovered that one of Australia’s best known folk remedies might help to alleviate the sheep industry’s biggest headache.
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6 Feb 2012 -- UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) has bolstered its growing reputation for high-impact science by co-developing innovative new crop technology in consort with one of the world’s biggest seed companies.
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27 Jan 2012 -- Researchers at UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Food and Agriculture (QAAFI) have acted swiftly to ensure Australia’s next $180 million avocado crop won’t be crippled by a fungus.
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10 Jan 2012 -- Introducing QAAFI summer scholar Nurul Safwanah Noor Azmi
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9 Jan 2012 -- QAAFI and Queensland Government scientists have discovered promising new anti-microbial properties in a combination of natural-plant ingredients, including two common native Australian plums.
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22 Dec 2011 -- A group of leading marine scientists has discovered that sharks on Australia's east coast display a mysterious tendency to interbreed, challenging several accepted scientific theories regarding shark behaviour.
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20 Dec 2011 -- One of Australia’s most experienced weed specialists has been appointed to lead a weed-busting team of top Australian scientists, targeting the six most damaging cropping weeds in north-eastern Australia.
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19 Dec 2011 -- A QAAFI-led team has discovered that an ancient relative of rice contains genes that could potentially save food crops from the devastating effects of global warming.
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26 Sep 2011 -- A research scientist at The University of Queensland has warned that climate change could have a significantly greater impact on farming profits than on the yield of individual crops.
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23 Sep 2011 -- An international alliance to produce an economically viable, low-emission biofuel is moving into the scientific fast lane at The University of Queensland.
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Sep 2011 -- Professor Stephen Moore has taken up his role as Director of QAAFI’s Centre for Animal Science (CAS).
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15 Aug 2011 -- Australian scientists believe they may be a step closer to finding a cattle tick vaccine that could save the national beef and dairy industries approximately $175 million per annum and reduce the need for pesticides.
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3 Aug 2011 -- Wine lovers already appreciate the differences that occur between brands, grape varieties variety and regions. A new project will take this concept and try and unlock the signature flavours for some of Australia’s most iconic seafood.
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22 July 2011 -- The inaugural Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held on Brisbane’s Sunshine Coast this week (20 - 21 July) celebrated the inroads already being made by Australia’s first tropical and subtropical agricultural research Institute.
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18 July 2011 -- The appointment of Professor Stephen Moore as Director of the Centre for Animal Science at The University of Queensland (UQ) is set to inject enormous value into research conducted on behalf of Australian and international livestock industries.
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4 July 2011 -- The DNA OF rare and endangered macadamia species will soon be fingerprinted in an effort to determine the original wild tree or trees that launched the global macadamia industry.
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27 June 2011 -- Two of the world’s leading research universities, The University of Queensland (UQ) and Clemson University in the USA, have signed a research agreement today that will result in invaluable collaboration in biofuels research and development.
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21 June 2011 --The appointment of Professor Graeme Hammer as Director of the Centre for Plant Science (CPS) at the University of Queensland (UQ) will underpin a fresh approach to agri-science research that aims to develop more productive and sustainable crop plants for tropical and subtropical environments
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7 June 2011 -- Our liver could be a major springboard for determining life-changing diabetes diagnosis and treatment thanks to a world-first discovery by an Australian-Chinese research team.
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1 June 2011 -- What makes a good cup of coffee? That’s the question Queensland Government and University of Queensland taste researchers are delving into by matching consumer’s preferences to the flavours of a variety of coffee beans.
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5 May 2011 -- A WORLD-FIRST VACCINE based on nanotechnology could provide protection from the *Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVDV), which costs the Australian cattle industry tens of millions in lost revenue each year.
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5 April 2011 -- EIGHT POPULATIONS of flax-leaf fleabane (Conyza bonariensis) have been confirmed resistant to glyphosate in northern NSW and southern Queensland. This is the fifth weed species to be confirmed resistant to glyphosate in Australia in the past 10 years, with four being found in the past three years, and is the first glyphosate resistant broadleaf weed found in Australia.
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21 March 2011 -- QUEENSLAND SCIENTISTS are leading an international food security research collaboration that aims to increase crop production by 30 per cent and reduce crop failures for 500,000 African farmers.
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1 March 2011 -- HONEY SOURCED FROM AN AUSTRALIAN native myrtle tree has been found to have the most powerful anti-bacterial properties of any honey in the world and could be used to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections that commonly occur in hospitals and nursing homes.
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11 Feb 2011 -- The University of Queensland's newest institute, the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), is part of a national effort to fast-track development of new ‘healthier' varieties of three of the world's most widely cultivated cereal grains.
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13 Nov 2010 -- The newly-formed University of Queensland research Institute, the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), is proud to support the first New Rural Industries Australia (NRIA) Conference to be held from 28 to 30 November 2010 at Jupiter’s Casino on the Gold Coast.
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21 Oct 2010 -- QUEENSLAND’S POSITION as an international leader in tropical and sub-tropical agriculture and food research has been given a boost by today’s launch of The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation (QAAFI).
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