December 6, 2022
The Logies of Australian weeds, “Weed of the Year”
Written by: Peter Newman On the red carpet of the Australian weeds Logie awards for Weed of the Year, Annual Ryegrass was smugly strutting…
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Written by: Peter Newman On the red carpet of the Australian weeds Logie awards for Weed of the Year, Annual Ryegrass was smugly strutting…
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AHRI researcher Dr Roberto Busi discovered Velocity® resistant wild radish populations in two paddocks in the northern Wheatbelt of Western Australia. The resistance evolved in…
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Associate Professor Ken Flower has been appointed as the incoming Director of the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative at The University of Western Australia’s School of Agriculture and Environment.
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Written by: Peter Newman If you cut your finger off, you are not at an elevated risk of producing children with fewer fingers. But…if you…
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Written by: Peter Newman Imagine a weed that is so resistant to glyphosate, that when you apply glyphosate, it actually increases the growth of…
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Wolf! Wolf! I promise you, there really is a wolf this time!! We are well known for making noise every time we find a new…
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Written by: Peter Newman Evolution is pretty wild. A random mutation occurs, and if that is beneficial, the mutation becomes dominant over generations and the…
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Media release Professor Hugh Beckie, from The University of Western Australia School of Agriculture and Environment, is retiring from the role of Director of the…
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Written by: Peter Newman I, like many other Aussies, had the pleasure of doing a ski season at Whistler in Canada when I was in…
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Written by: Peter Newman “If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute…
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