Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner famously said that all problems in biology are versions of three basic questions: How does it work? How is it built? How did it get that way? I’m both pleased and excited, to be one of the members of the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Centre. My background is a bit like the infinitesimal model, in that I know a
Researchers have unravelled the mystery of sugarcane genetics, finding the crop’s genome is three times the size of the human genome and more complex. After a decade of research, scientists from The University of Queensland, Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and Sugar Research Australia (SRA) have been able to fully map the sugarcane genome for the first time. Co-author Professor
An international alliance has been set up to conserve wild rice, with University of Queensland Professor of Innovation in Agriculture, Professor Robert Henry, the Australian representative. The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Yazhou Bay National Laboratory, the International Rice Research Institute and researchers from 24 different countries have released their vision for the Global Alliance for the Conservation of Wild Rice WORLD WILD-RICE
