Dean DellaPenna says we are in the midst of a golden period for research into plant metabolism.

ComBio begins in Canberra next week and as part of our preview we talk to plenary speaker Rob Last about the tomato trichome project.

Murdoch Uni wins grant to research turning algae into energy

Biofuels – North America and India are into it in a big way, Brazil wants everyone to play, and China is spending a packet to join in. Now a group of Queensland biotechnologists have teamed up with the Swiss to sweeten the game.

With the lifting of two moratoria on genetically modified crops in Australia recently, so did the inevitably polarised debate take off. Those for and against are unlikely to change their minds and, unfortunately, some scientists are now afraid to speak theirs.

US crop scientists discover gene that controls fruit shape.

Australia’s durum wheat growers have extra reason to be worried as the worst drought in two centuries provides a grim foretaste of the Infernal Century.

CSIRO scientists have combined disease resistance genes in wild wheat varieties.

A vaccine for fowlpox developed by the CSIRO has been released commercially.

Studying the symbiotic relationship between legumes and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria raises the possibility of a potential application in cereals.

Did the evolution of C4 photosynthesis pathways in grasses helped kick-start modern human evolution as well?