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The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation - CENTRE FOR HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE

13 Dec 2019

The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation CENTRE FOR HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE Queensland Alliance for Centre for Animal Science Agriculture and Food Leading tropical livestock research and development Innovation The Centre for Animal Science delivers world-class research to Australia’s animal industries. [...] QAAFI is an agricultural and food sciences research institute of The University of Queensland – one of the world’s leading research We have major programs and capability in genetics and genomics; providers in tropical and subtropical agriculture and food production. [...] QAAFI delivers high-impact science to significantly improve the productivity, Centre for Horticultural Science competitiveness and sustainability of Driving innovation and industry adoption tropical and subtropical food, fibre and agribusiness industries. [...] Consumer ‘fork to farm’ research focus The Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences supports enhanced health • Centre for Animal Science outcomes and economic benefits for Australia, by conducting integrated • Centre for Crop Science fundamental and applied research to improve the taste, quality, • Centre for Horticultural Science appearance, nutritional value and safety of food. [...] Our research includes: • Conservation and genetic improvement of horticultural crops • Sub-tropical and tropical fruit tree crop breeding and improvement • Rootstock evaluation and selection to improve productivity • Improving orchard production systems Plant protection We undertake research in detection and identification of diseases in tropical horticulture, and develop integrated disease manage.
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