Global demand for plant production is at an all-time high. As the human population has increased there has been a steady decline in arable land despite a steady increase in average yield per land area. The ARC CoE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is making significant advances in the emerging fields of evolutionary systems biology (how plants work and evolve) and predictive analytics (mathematics) to deliver novel strategies for improving ecosystem management, crop resilience, and yield. Parallel advances in legal and social frameworks are modernising outdated precedents in these areas, enabling truly impactful research to be fully recognised, with greater scope for commercialisation and public uptake.
Every gram of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser comes at a cost of energy, money, and carbon emissions. Over the past 50 years, this natural process has been overshadowed by industrial production and use of industrial fertilisers, which have become essential for food security but undermine environment and human health. There is a pressing need to explore more sustainable solutions that can…
Plant Success and the Training Centre for Predictive Breeding hosted a week of soybean collaborative project meetings in Brisbane earlier this month, bringing together teams from BASF, Iowa State University (ISU), and QAAFI. A central objective of this collaboration is to tackle Genotype x Environment x Management (GxExM) interactions in soybean – a complex challenge that demands coordinated expertise across modelling, physiology, genomics, and breeding. The meetings…
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