480 results for Plant%20health

Opportunity for

• Corporate life science companies, research funding bodies, SME/scale-ups interested in supporting research of plant growth and drought resilience promoting mycorrhizal fungi.

The future of innovation in horticulture is bright and will underpin the production of produce that is good for Australia and the world. 

 

Hort Innovation’s Head of R&D Byron de Kock said, “We strive for balance across our Research, Development and Extension program that represents more than $400 million of investment. At one end of the spectrum, we strive to transform and revolutionise through initiatives in biotechnology and robotics. At the other end, we seek to protect current production through biosecurity, crop protection, pest and disease control investments.”

South Australian agritech startup GoMicro is tackling global food loss and food waste head on, developing a cutting-edge technology that will allow farmers and agronomists to detect pests, diseases and assess food quality accurately. Now the startup is looking for deep tech or agricultural investors to support their growth.  

Opportunity for

• Solution providers wanting to develop new solutions for sterilisation of knives and other tools for Australian red meat abattoirs. Participants may be: 

• • Wishing to brainstorm and evaluate (without substantially building) new approaches (this can be initially focussed and limited to knife sterilisation) 
  • Ready to build and evaluate designs for new approaches 

An innovative agrifood startup is set to shake up the alternative protein sector with a novel next gen plant protein. Using highly-specialised extraction technologies, The Leaf Protein Co. is turning the green leaf by-product of vegetable crops into a nutritious, ‘free from’ protein source for food manufacturers. Promoting biodiversity, reducing food waste, and diversifying farm incomes – The Leaf Protein Co. is now seeking investors to scale towards pilot production.   

Carrying on from the previous iteration of the Banana Plant Protection Program, Improved plant protection for the banana industry (BA16001) …

Opportunity for:

• Crop protection specialist (agchemical companies and chemical resellers), potato/vegetable processing and agronomy companies interested in licensing a bacterial inoculant.
• Science industry partners interested in partnering for further development of the product.

 

Opportunity for

• Manufacturer’s and agricultural investors interested in scaling production of proprietary geodesic dome greenhouse (GDG) technology in Australia
• Investors interested in scaling production of Vanilla in Australia

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) commonly known as silver leaf whitefly (SLW) is a serious global pest and plant-virus vector, …

Growers in central and southern Queensland have identified that the ability to plant wheat into stored sub-soil moisture in the …

Giant pine scale (Marchalina hellenica) is a scale insect that sucks the sap of pine trees. If established, the insect …

Kikuyu is a C4 tropical grass which in Australia is an important component of dairy pastures. Genetic diversity is the …

Kikuyu is a C4 tropical grass which in Australia is an important component of dairy pastures. Genetic diversity is the …

The Australian Pastures Genebank (APG) Phase 1 was established in 2013 and operates under the framework of the International Treaty on Plant …

The Australian Pastures Genebank (APG) Phase 1 was established in 2013 and operates under the framework of the International Treaty on Plant …

The growᴬᴳ⋅ team last spoke with Fern Ho 12 months ago, when the product development executive was searching for investors to support market testing for a new plant protein ingredient. So positive was that feedback that The Leaf Protein Co. is back – with a US$1 million opportunity to help The Leaf Protein Co. scale from the lab to pilot production.^

The lack of a national standard for the health of planting material in Australia means that growers have no guarantee that the planting material being supplied to them by nurseries is disease free or of a certain provenance. Phase 1 of this project will address the framework required to underpin a new national standard for grapevine planting material, which will be customer-focused, independently audited, transparent, aspirational, inclusive and allow for continuous improvement.

DairyBio is the dairy industry’s leading bioscience research program. Its forage program projects, like this one researching pasture and turf temperate varieties, are designed to breed plants and pasture with higher yield, higher energy, improved digestibility and increased persistence, that will result in increased milk production.

A major factor limiting cotton yield in Southern New South Wales is the unpredictably cool start to the cotton growing …

Plant diseases are a significant production constraint to all agricultural crops, including wheat where rust diseases remain a major threat. …