Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI)

🌾 Happy #AgDayAu! 🌾 Today, QAAFI celebrates the world-class food and fibre grown here in Australia—and the dedicated farmers, researchers, and workers who make it all possible. These Aussies work tirelessly every day to feed our nation and keep our ag sector thriving. Here’s a throwback to a special story featuring Dr Dr Mobashwer Alam at Arbour Grove Nursery with farmer Keith Paxton, father of the nursery’s owner, Megan Crowhurst. bit.ly/4euQtKC #AgDay #SupportOurFarmers #AussieAg

#AgDayAu #NationalAgDay Grow you good thing! 💚 💜 ❤️ All the students from Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) are excited to celebrate today with all #AustralianFarmers and growers, all the agricultural scientists and peer research students!

Following his impressive performance as a finalist at Falling Walls Lab Australia, Pratyush Ravichander presented at the prestigious Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin on 7 November 2024. Pratyush delivered a dynamic ‘Three-Minute-Thesis’ style presentation, showcasing his RNA-based fungicide research. The summit provided an incredible opportunity to hear from over 100 speakers tackling global challenges and facilitated discussions on research opportunities, scientific excursions and more.   Congratulations once again, Pratyush. We’re excited to see where your research leads next. Neena Mitter Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) The University of Queensland ARC HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE CROP PROTECTION Donald Gardiner

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Friday for the 2024 QAAFI Awards End of Year Celebration! It was wonderful to see so many of you there, and we’re incredibly grateful for everyone who took part in the QAAFI Awards nominations. We hope you enjoyed the afternoon as much as we did, celebrating the hard work, dedication, and achievements within our QAAFI community. A huge congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 QAAFI Awards! 🏆👏 Please join us in congratulating the following outstanding individuals: For the “Partnering for Impact Award” 🔹Ala Tabor 🔹Avocado tissue culture team (Alice Hayward, Chris O'Brien, Maddy Gleeson & Neena Mitter) For the “The Rising Star Award for EMCRs” 🔹EMCRs from CNAFS (Maral Seididamyeh, Eshetu Mulisa Bobasa (PhD), Saleha Akter, and Oladipupo Adiamo, Raisa Rudge, Jaqueline Moura Nadolny, Jia-Hua SHI, Luke Williams, Ph.D.) 🔹Nga Tran For the “Rising Star – HDR Award” 🔹Harvey Santos 🔹Jingyin Bao 🔹Highly Commended: Sogra banu juli For the “Citizenship and Service – Professional staff Award” 🔹Tony Cavallaro 🔹Mel Rowan 🔹Highly Commended: Megan Pope and Natalie MacGregor, and The QAAFI Finance Advisory Team (Ankita Chatia, Darrick Lin, Anastasia Poluyanova, Erika Bhandari, Ming Zhou CPA) For the “Citizenship and Service – Academic staff Award” 🔹Sudhir Yadav 🔹Alison Kelly For the “Reconciliation, Diversity and Inclusion Award” 🔹Erin Galea and Ric Tang  🔹The Tissue culture team (Alice Hayward, Chris O’Brien, Maddy Gleeson, Albert Chern Sun Wong, Eveline Yee Yan Kong, Lily Whelehan, Thi Thao Ninh) For the “Looking after our people Award” 🔹Alice Hayward  🔹Danila Elango 🔹Highly Commended: Sue Campbell Thank you for helping make this year’s event a memorable one!

Join Professor Robert Henry TODAY at 12:00pm AEST as he unveils recent breakthroughs in genomics! Discover new insights from crop genomes like sugarcane, coffee, and rice using cutting-edge sequencing during this QAAFI Science Seminar. 🔗bit.ly/3CzaNgr

How do we make a sustainable diet delicious? #UQ’s Professor Heather Smyth has some thoughts on the future of food. It appears starting young may be the key, but it's an area that requires more research. https://bit.ly/3YPB9CG Department of Primary Industries (Queensland) Australia's Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA) Uniquely Australian Foods

🌱 Join Prof Robert Henry next week as he shares breakthrough applications in genome sequencing for crops like sugarcane, coffee, and mango, plus rare species. Discover how these insights are shaping the future of agriculture! 📅 12 Nov, 12:00pm AEST 📍bit.ly/3NUkGIh

Working to solve a vexing issue for sorghum farmers. Lodging causes the head to fall and a research team at #UQ is finding solutions to prevent the stem hollowing by boosting stem strength. Discover more: bit.ly/40bmSSZ David Jordan Andrew Borrell Geetika Geetika Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Queensland) Grains Research and Development Corporation Advanta Seeds

🌾Dive into the latest Innovation in Agriculture Newsletter! From sorghum breeding to bushfood partnerships and disease management in Macadamias - discover how these projects are transforming ag for a sustainable future. bit.ly/3AtgVq2 Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Queensland)

Researchers at UQ are on track to solve a costly problem for farmers, sorghum lodging. The 5-year $12 milion dollar investment from government and industry is using targeted breeding to boost stem strength. https://bit.ly/40bmSSZ Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Queensland) GRDC Advanta Seeds David Jordan Geetika Geetika