Grains

CSIRO Plant Industry conducts research to promote profitable and sustainable agrifood, fibre and horticultural industries, develop new plant products and improve natural resource management.

The Food Futures Flagship aims to transform Australia's international competitiveness in the agrifood sector through the application of frontier technologies to high potential industries.

CSIRO is investigating ways of controlling a devastating new wheat disease strain which could lead to a global wheat production and food supply crisis.

Food manufacturers will soon have access to a new CSIRO-bred barley variety which has significant human health benefits.

To help protect Australia’s ecosystems, CSIRO is undertaking invasive species research at pre-border, border and post-border level.

CSIRO wheat trait information for cereal breeders.

We examine the environmental impacts of irrigated and rain-fed agriculture to improve the quality of our land and water resources in rural regions.

CSIRO’s plant breeding capabilities benefit a range of agribusiness industries from horticulture and pastoral through to broadacre crops such as wheat.

CSIRO has found a way to grow plants with healthy omega-3 oils, which are normally only found in fish and microalgae. Learn how we did it in this video from SCOPE, a science TV show for kids produced by Network Ten Australia and CSIRO. (3:00)

Some of CSIRO’s best brains have been enlisted in an international effort to stop the spread of Ug99, a new wheat stem rust which threatens to devastate world wheat production. In this podcast, world leaders in rust research Dr Evans Lagudah and Dr Michael Ayliffe from CSIRO Plant Industry explain the link between Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Australian wheat varieties, and rice. (5.21)

Dr Peacock received the 2005 CSIRO Lifetime Achievement Award for his tremendous impact over the last 40 years.

CSIRO Black Mountain laboratories in Canberra have facilities servicing insect, plant, atmospheric, land and water science.

Ug99 is a strain of the fungus, wheat stem rust, and is considered one of biggest threats to wheat production worldwide. CSIRO Plant Industry is helping find  solutions to this potential threat to world food supplies. (2 pages)

Fund out the latest news from the National Invertebrate Pest Initiative with the NIPI newsletter.

CSIRO's research into the origin and behaviour of psocids is leading to more targeted control.

CSIRO Plant Industry scientists are using a variety of approaches to assist breeders to develop better wheat for Australia's northern regions.