Issue No 4, July 1995.
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12. Postgraduate Research in Australia on New Crops Research and Development
In the Australian New Crops Newsletter Issue No 3, a request was made for information on postgraduate research being conducted in Australia in the area of new crops research and development. Not all institutions have yet responded: the projects identified, so far, are listed below. If you wish to include projects in the next issue of the Newsletter please forward details to the editors.
James Cook University of North Queensland
- Adrien Mourges
Environmental and physiological factors affecting yield and quality of black gram (Vigna mungo)
The University of Queensland
- Chai McConnell, Investigations into the marketing analysis of potential new crops
- Greg Ferguson, Economic analyses of potential new crops
- Gerard Kregor, Development and application of improved selection and evaluation procedures to produce new crops for Northern Australia
- Glen Beech, The genetic variability of moth bean Vigna aconitifolia
- Felipe Dela Cruz, Identification of superior cashew trees for northern Australian conditions
- Luigino Doimo, Extraction of essential oils from potential new crops
- Margaret Johnston, The biology, culture and use of Caustis blakei (conferred)
- Lynda Ketelhohn, The propagation and horticultural development of Persoonia spp.
- Helen Murphy, Light interception as a determinant of guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) gum yield and quality grown under non-limiting and limiting water regimes
- Songpol Somsri, Investigation of techniques of sex determination for papaya breeding
- Steve Mitchell, The factors influencing crop establishment in millets (Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica) in traditional and conservation farming systems
- Karyudi, Investigations into osmo-regulation in Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica
University of Southern Queensland
- Nita Lester, An investigation of the environment and propagation of the Australian tropical water lily, Nymphaea gigantea pink form
- Janet Cleary, Post-harvest treatments to prolong the vase life of the silver bud variety of Eucalyptus lesouefii
University of Melbourne
- Brian Monaghan, Genetic variation in Morama bean (Tylosema esculentum)
- Geoffrey Ashburner, Characterisation, collection and conservation of Cocos nucifera L. in the south Pacific
Australian National University
- Gary Grant, Inheritance of oil production in E. polybractea
- Penny Butcher, Variation and breeding of tea tree with particular reference to oil production
- David Bush, The effect of paclobutrazol on three eucalypt species
University of South Australia
- Roman Kluba, The extraction and separation of coriander oil using near-critical and super-critical carbon dioxide
- Joseph Foley, Improved riffle washer design for the Australian sultana industry
- Alladdin Rahmani, Mechanisation systems for medic seed production
- David Moser, Optimisation of a machine to break the seed coat on grain legumes
University of Tasmania
- Tina Botwright, Factors affecting quality of green tea
- Greg Luckman, Propagation of Eucalyptus nitens by cuttings
- Daniel Mendham, Process-based predictions of nutrient limits to plants
- Hazel McTavish, Factors influencing oil yield in Boronia megastigma
- Chris Read, Leaf extracts of Tasmannia lanceolata
- Linda Reynolds, Improvement of yield potential in commercial fennel crops through improved fruit set
Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture
- Marli Draper, Field cultivation and harvest of Achillea millefolium, Inula helenium and Echinacea purpurea
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