Every year more than 70 per cent of our planet’s available fresh water is used by the agricultural sector. In Australia, agriculture accounts for almost 60 per cent of total water extractions…

Plants take in and synthesise protective hormones to safeguard themselves against infection from pathogens, but it has long been accepted that excessive accumulation of such hormones can…

Recent studies have uncovered fascinating new details about the signalling networks used by plants to process information relating to their environments, before responding accordingly…

Damage to trees and logs during harvest and transportation can result in significant losses of wood volume and value. To prevent this, researchers are investigating productivity losses, c…

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) has released an updated version of Australia’s forests and forestry glossary. A continuation of the glo…

It has long been assumed our forests will play an increasingly important role in mitigating climate change, thanks to trees’ ability to absorb more carbon dioxide than they emit. However, ne…

A Melbourne-based team of researchers has developed a novel way to help address the global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) that has resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. Thi…

As demand for wood continues to rise, the establishment of new forest plantations in Australia appears unlikely to generate the quantities of timber required. Thankfully, recent research…