CSIRO Plant Industry information sheets

CSIRO Plant Industry has a number of easy to read information sheets on various aspects of our plant science research and this page links to these information sheets.

• 11 August 2008 | Updated 1 April 2012

For a general overview of Plant Industry please see CSIRO Plant Industry: creative science, innovative solutions.

• Cotton
• Farming
• Forestry
• Gene technology
• Grapes and wine
• Horticulture
• Native plants
• Oilseeds and legumes
• Pastures
• Sugar
• Wheat and other grains

Cotton

• Bollgard II: the new generation of GM cotton information sheet
• Emerging cotton pests information sheet
• FIBREpak information sheet
• Narrow rows widen chance of higher yields information sheet
• Spinning towards high quality
• Vetch - the legume that increases cotton profits information sheet
• More Cotton Per Drop

Farming

• Deep and meaningful information sheet
• Fertiliser after the drought information sheet
• GrassGro™: matching management goals with land capability information sheet
• GrazFeed™: managing the nutrition of sheep and cattle information sheet
• GRAZPLAN™ information sheet
• Have your grain and eat it too
• MetAccess™: coming to grips with variable weather information sheet
• Reducing water repellency in sandy soils information sheet
• Roots and bugs unearthed information sheet
• Surviving a frosty reception information sheet
• Tactics for hostile soils information sheet
• Time ticking on the need to use phosphorus resources more efficiently
• Vigorous roots improve nitrogen uptake information sheet

Forestry

• Time for juvenile wood to grow up information sheet
• Planting future forests to improve lives
• Seed quality and orchards

Gene technology

• Gene technology
• Bigger seeds - size does matter information sheet
• Bioinformatics - from data to knowledge information sheet
• From little things, big things grow information sheet
• GM corn experiment
• Proposed GM wheat trial - DIR092
• Proposed GM wheat and barley trial -DIR093
• GM wheat and barley trial DIR094
• GM wheat and barley trial DIR099
• GM wheat and barley trial DIR111
• GM wheat and barley trial DIR112
• Risk assessment of GM field peas information sheet
• The science of breakups information sheet

Grapes and wine

• Cienna information sheet
• From vine to palate information sheet
• Future rootstocks for Australian grapes information sheet
• Good sports on the vine information sheet 
• Grapevine water use by variety information sheet
• Identifying and naming grapevines information sheet
• Mechanical thinning
• Rubienne information sheet
• Tyrian information sheet
• VineLOGIC Virtual Vineyard - modelling the grapevine
• Running towards resistance
• White grapes - what's the difference?
• An even harvest is even better

Horticulture

• A taste of the outback information sheet
• New mandarins are good as gold information sheet

Native plants

• Relocating endangered orchids
• Australian orchid genera: an information and identification system CD-ROM
• Australian Tropical Herbarium information kit
• Bacteria boosted wattles help 're-green' Australia information sheet
• Coming to the genetic rescue of temperate grasslands
• Cryptic plants reveal their secrets information sheet
• EUCLID: eucalypts of Australia DVD
• Interacting with Acacia
• Gene flow in fragmented habitats information sheet
• Local adaptation for revegetation information sheet
• Piecing together the patches
• Protecting biodiversity in new high rainfall zone cropping areas
• Revealing the secret life of orchids information sheet
• Seed quality and orchards
• Thirsty natives: impact of drought on plant species
• Weeding out the risk of pest plants

Oilseeds and legumes

• Canola for grain and grazing information sheet
• Crop biofactories information sheet
• Exploring lupins for a healthier future
• Fast tracking oil genes
• Medicago - the model legume information sheet
• Soybean research for a growing industry information sheet
• Snowy - the best Australian soybean yet information sheet
• Stuart - soybean for coastal and tropical Queensland information sheet

Pastures

• Choosing phalaris
• GrassGro™: matching management goals with land capability information sheet 
• GrazFeed™: managing the nutrition of sheep and cattle information sheet
• GRAZPLAN™ information sheet 
• MetAccess™: coming to grips with variable weather information sheet

Sugar

• Sugar research for a profitable industry information sheet

Wheat and other grains

• Building better wheat information sheet
• New BARLEYmax™: high fibre wholegrain with resistant starch
• Cold tolerant rice information sheet
• Increasing wheat yield on salty soils
• Drysdale - a world's first
• Durable rust resistance gene identified
• Elusive rust resistance genes located information sheet
• Fighting a global rust threat information sheet
• Gluten free foods information sheet
• Helping wheat beat fusarium information sheet
• International wheat adaptation trial information sheet
• Mackellar - virus beating wheat
• More wheat for Western Australia's high rainfall zone information sheet
• Partnership gives new wheat a healthy future information sheet
• Rees - more crop per drop
• Super resistance to tackle biggest disease information sheet
• Selecting Northern Wheat
• Tailoring wheat to northern Australia information sheet
• Wheat - delivering the goods
• Wheat genome hunt for drought adaptation information sheet

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