Angus Dingley, PhD student: Improving warm-zone raspberry cultivation
UNE’s Angus Dingley is exploring how temperature extremes affect pollination in polytunnels to help growers produce more and better berries.
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Gareema Pandey: Optimising nutritional content in polytunnel-grown blueberries
As CRC Industry PhD student attached to the ‘Blueberry nutritional optimisation’ project, Gareema Pandey is working with crop scientists and sustainability experts at Western Sydney University and NSW Department of Primary Industries to improve the nutritional profile of blueberries grown undercover.
China welcomes Future Food Systems’ ‘Future farming’ Program Lead
Distinguished Professor David Tissue’s recent trip included visits to former students and leading research institutions, a gigantic flux tower tour and some memorable dinners.
LLEAF takes its sunlight-shifting, growth-enhancing films global
Sydney-based SME LLEAF has secured a global distributor for its innovative light-spectra-shifting agricultural film, shown to boost crop yields by up to 20%.
Queensland’s largest Asian mushroom grower joins Future Food Systems
In September, Future Food Systems welcomed Sunshine-Coast-based sustainable exotic mushroom grower Kenon Corporation into its consortium.
Claudia Vacca, PhD student: Boosting resilience in Broccolini™
Western Sydney University PhD student Claudia Vacca has spent their career studying plant pathogens, from trees to potatoes, developing new ways for early detection and intervention.
Future Food Systems represented at events around the world
In July. Future Food Systems staff, research leads and PhDs represented FFS, our projects and our mission at conferences and agrifood events nationwide.
Mazadul Islam, PhD student: Making glasshouse fertigation more sustainable
FFS PhD student Mazadul Islam is working with experts in two nations to find more sustainable ways to fertigate indoor vegetable crops.
LLEAF launches vast ‘solar lab’ on Sydney’s Northern Beaches
FFS partner LLEAF has opened a large-scale ‘solar laboratory’ to trial its light-spectrum-shifting, crop yield-boosting agricultural films in commercial glasshouse conditions.
PhD progress report: Gehan Abdelghany, ‘Commercialising native rice’ project
Darwin-based FFS PhD scholar Gehan Abdelghany’s research is contributing valuable agronomic information to the FFS-backed ‘Commercialising native rice’ project.