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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.

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CSIRO has a range of facilities that are opened to the public, with each offering a unique insight into science research activities and history.

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Large-scale, long-term, multidisciplinary science to address Australia's major national challenges and opportunities.

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CSIRO expertise is organised into 15 research areas.

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CSIRO manages national facilities and collections that are opened to researchers around Australia and overseas.
- The Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL)
- National Collections - The Australian National Insect Collection, The Australian National Fish Collection, The Australian National Herbarium, The Australian National Wildlife Collection
- The Marine National Facility - The Southern Surveyor
- Telescopes - Parkes, Narrabri, Mopra, Tidbinbilla, VLBI, ASKAP
- Pyrotron

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Wheat

CSIRO is helping plant breeders produce drought tolerant wheat varieties.

Science for tomorrow

This one-page extract from Farming Ahead contains four stories about current developments in science from across CSIRO.

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This extract, called Science for Tomorrow, describes CSIRO's research on the following topics:

identifying genes to increase seed size in crops
examining drought-adaptive traits and associated genes to produce wheat varieties with more drought tolerance
measuring contentment in sheep to allay concern about animal welfare issues
developing methods to test the rigidity of wool fibres as an indicator for fine wool.

Read more articles from Farming Ahead.

This extract appeared in Farming Ahead, number 177, October 2006.

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Email: Enquiries@csiro.au

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