PhD progress report: Gehan Abdelghany, ‘Commercialising native rice’ projectDarwin-based FFS PhD scholar Gehan Abdelghany's research is contributing valuable agronomic information to the FFS-backed ‘Commercialising native rice’ project.
Australian native rice is one step closer to appearing on restaurant menusPutting Australian native rice on our plates and in restaurants is one step closer after a successful harvest of three species sourced from Northern Australian wetlands.
Meet Sean Bellairs: native grains and site regeneration expertCharles Darwin University's Dr Sean Bellairs is a specialist in site revegetation and in breeding and establishing plants indigenous to Australia's north. He's also the research lead on the CRC's four-year, multi-partner 'Native rice commercialisation' project.
Northern Australia’s native rice: ripe for commercialisationIn stage 1 of this multi-year collaboration, two CRC partner universities, NT Government and three First Nations enterprises have joined forces to collect, analyse and develop protocols for the world's first broadacre plantings of native wild rice in Northern Australia.
Gehan Abdelghany, PhD student: Developing agronomic protocols for the cultivation of Australian wild Oryza species in Northern AustraliaFor Egyptian academic Gehan Abdelghany, who’s spent much of her career to date finding beneficial uses of indigenous plant species, undertaking a PhD with the FFS-backed ‘Commercialising native rice’ project was a natural progression.
Commercialising native rice for Indigenous enterprise developmentA four-year, multi-disciplinary project under the CRC’s Research Program 1 will help ‘prepare the ground’ for commercialising Australian native rice, at same time creating new opportunities for indigenous enterprise.
