The Best Practice Guidelines for the Collection and Transfer of Genetic Resources are a comprehensive framework designed to guide ethical and scientifically sound practices in the management of genetic resources. Australian law in relation to the collection, transfer, and use of genetic resources is fragmented and incomplete. This creates problems for researchers, access providers, and Indigenous Australians. The Guidelines help

The laboratory strain of Nicotiana benthamiana, a native Australian plant, has been extensively used for the last two decades in plant research around the world. It has an almost unique ability to rapidly express foreign genes in its leaves after simple injection of a bacterium, carrying the foreign DNA. The Waterhouse group has been pioneering an understanding of the species’