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World-class facility to help achieve a renewable and sustainable future

Researcher Jieqiong Shan

A sustainable and cleaner future for society depends on the next generation of advanced materials. In a new facility scientists at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide will develop materials which will help to achieve those goals for South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog and the nation.

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Durum breeding to grow in commercial sector

Durum

Durum Breeding ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog (DBA) has announced that ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Grain Technologies Pty Ltd (AGT) has been awarded the licence to take the durum breeding program forward.

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$1M in funding for project to cull mouse plagues

DNA image

The ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide has been awarded $1 million in funding from the South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Government’s Research and Innovation Fund (RIF), to undertake the ground-breaking Genetic Biocontrol Technology for Invasive Pests, or Gene Drive, project, in conjunction with the Department for Environment and Water.

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New Deputy Vice-Chancellor (External Engagement) to pursue partnerships and revenue

Jessica Gallagher

The ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide has appointed Dr Jessica Gallagher to the new role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (External Engagement).

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Earth observation technologies focus for partnership

The SITAEL Platino spacecraft over ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog

Lot Fourteen based SITAEL ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog has today announced a new partnership with the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide’s Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) to cooperate in innovative research into space-based infrared instruments.

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Academia and regional wine expertise brought together with signing of dynamic MOU between Barossa Grape and Wine Association and the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide.

Wine grapes

A landmark Memorandum of Understanding between the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide and Barossa Grape & Wine Association has been signed today at The Barossa Cellar.

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×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide 2020 Annual Report published

Goodman cres

The ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide’s Annual Report for 2020 has today been tabled in South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Parliament.

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Honeyeater evolution for high sucrose diet

Honeyeater bird on a Banksia plant

Scientists have long suspected the digestive systems of nectar-eating birds, such as honeyeaters, co-evolved with the nectar-composition in flowers. To document whether this theory is accurate, in a paper published in , researchers at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide studied the ability of birds to digest different sugars, and looked at whether they matched the nectar sugars found in plants used by families of birds in different parts of the world.

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Women undergraduates win defence scholarships

Five women STEM scholars

Five women undergraduates from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide have won scholarships to help them continue their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related studies.

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Minimising the impact of frost-bite on Aussie crops

Crops at Loxton where frost trials took place.

Spring radiation frost is estimated to cost ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn grain growers $360 million in direct and indirect losses every year. In a paper published in researchers at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide and the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Wollongong have ranked the susceptibility to frost damage in wheat and barley germplasm (seed and tissues) under frost prone landscapes across ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog.

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