The costs and benefits of buffel grass and its management

CSIRO scientists are working with agencies, regional groups and individuals to document the environmental, social and economic benefits and costs of buffel grass.

CSIRO keeps our grain the market leader

For an expectant return of A$20 for every dollar invested in CSIRO’s Stored Grain Research Laboratory, it has to be one of the best R&D success stories around. The Stored Grain Research Laboratory has kept Australian grain in the forefront of the world export market.

Modelling natural systems

CSIRO Entomology have developed Dymex, a population modelling program providing researchers with a means of building complex population models for biological organisms.

Biological control of Emex: the weed and potential agents

The introduced weed, Emex, which costs A$40 million a year in crop losses and production costs in Western Australia alone, has been the target of a biolgical control program.

Aerial fire suppression

CSIRO scientists, as part of the Australian Bushfire CRC, are investigating the effectiveness of aerial suppression of bushfires. The project will provide information needed to shape national aerial firefighting strategies.

Dr TJ Higgins: researching legume gene technology

Dr TJ Higgins is a leading researcher in plant gene technology particularly in improving nutritional value and resistance against pests and diseases.

Dr Narayana Upadhyaya: examining wheat stem rust

Dr Narayana Upadhyaya is exploring the genes involved with stem rust infection in wheat.

Scientific papers (2007): plant diseases and pests

This page lists all CSIRO Plant Industry's scientific papers published in 2007 related to plant diseases and pests.

Modelling Climate Change Impacts on Sleeper and Alert Weeds: results of CLIMEX models Part 2

This document contains profiles for 13 of the 41 alert and sleeper weed species that were assessed for their potential to change distribution due to climate change as part of the report Modelling Climate Change Impacts on Sleeper and Alert Weeds. (93 pages)

Dr Garry Cook: tropical savanna ecology and management

Dr Garry Cook is a savanna ecologist with interests in soil and landscape processes, fire ecology and vegetation dynamics.

Improving Murray-Darling Basin health

The Heartlands consortium aims to improve land use in the Murray-Darling Basin to preserve land and water resources and sustain commodity production.

Pesticide impact rating index software

After ten years of CSIRO research, the off-site impacts of different pesticides and land uses can be compared using a simple risk indicator.

Advancing Australian aquaculture

The Food Futures Flagship links research and industry partners in projects that raise the value and competitiveness of Australian aquaculture.

Land management for emissions offsets on Indigenous lands

This 70-page CSIRO report assessed the potential value of land management practices that can sequester carbon or change emissions regimes on indigenous lands.

Dr Wilna Vosloo: foot-and-mouth disease expert

Dr Wilna Vosloo is an internationally renowned expert on foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) working at CSIRO's Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, Victoria.

What a tangled food web

Scientists are studying interactions between insect communities in crop and non-crop vegetation to help get the most out of natural pest control. (2 pages)

Moth joins Kakadu weed battle

A small moth has been released to help control one of Australia's most significant weed menaces, Mimosa pigra, which is threatening the sensitive wetlands of Kakadu in the Northern Territory. The weed mimosa threatens sensitive wetlands in northern Australia and CSIRO is engaged in the biological control battle.

Dr Tracey Hinton: delivering medical therapeutics by RAFTing

Dr Tracey Hinton is a research scientist with CSIRO Livestock Industries working to develop new methods to deliver bioactive drugs.

The roles of invasive species in tropical fragmented landscapes

CSIRO is researching plant community composition on the coastal floodplains of three major Wet Tropics rivers to provide an indicator of ecosystem health and the impact of habitat fragmentation.

Bushfire in Australia

Bushfire has been part of the Australian landscape for millions of years but while we consider it a threat, some of our flora and fauna depend upon it.

Locust researcher named as finalist for Eureka Prize

Dr Richard Milner, an Honorary Fellow at CSIRO Entomology in Canberra, has been named as a finalist for the prestigious Sherman Eureka Prize for Environmental Research.

Cape tulips – pretty but pests in pastures

CSIRO and the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia (DAFWA) are collaborating to try to outwit one of southern Australia’s worst agricultural weeds.

Scorched gum leaves: fuel for fire?

In a bushfire, sometimes the leaves of eucalypt trees don’t appear to burn thoroughly. Instead they change from green to brown and are left hanging on the trees. Could these leaves be fuel for another fire?

Waging war on wheat pest: Grains Week 2006

Australian researchers are investigating breeding resistance into cereal plants to protect wheat and barley crops in the event of a Russian wheat aphid onslaught.

Dr Dean Paini: modelling potential pest invasions

Dr Dean Paini is using self organising maps (SOM’s) to model a range of plant pests and diseases to help determine their invasion risk potential to Australia.