With food security and sustainable food production an increasingly pressing concern for a booming global population, agricultural experts from The University of Western Australia have teamed up with their Chinese counterparts at Lanzhou University to step up research into dryland agricultural production.
Human breastmilk responds quickly to protect the child when there is an infection in mothers or babies, according to new international research led by The University of Western Australia.
An animal biologist from The University of Western Australia is among a large team of international researchers biting their fingernails as they wait to learn whether their bid to impregnate a rare giant panda in Scotland has paid off.
Strawberries are one of the most economically important berry crops in the world, and a high value export crop for the Australian horticultural industry.
Researchers at The University of Western Australia and Macquarie University will investigate how international laws can be reformed to improve shark conservation and management.
A young physicist from The University of Western Australia has won a prestigious Federal Government National Measurement Institute (NMI) Prize for his outstanding work in the science of measurement.
The more crop scientists know about how plant roots take up water and nutrients, the better able they will be to develop crop plants with roots that can cope with challenging soil and environmental conditions.
Researchers
behind a new study into the precision metering of the sandalwood tree's large
and irregular seed believe engineering could drive a revolution to meet
Australia's agricultural needs.
