Trialing new cut flower varieties

Field trial of new cut flower, floriculture, foliage varieties.

Breeding Low Chill high quality stonefruit

Breeding Low Chill high quality stonefruit.

ACIAR 9995 Improving the value chain for plantation-grown sawn wood

To improve the yield of marketable high value sawn and/or veneer timber from young plantation grown eucalypts: through the greater understanding and management of growth stresses; grain angle; juvenile wood; and other important wood properties.

Preliminary Vacuum Kiln Trials SWDS

Preliminary trials to test the viability of vacuum drying Australian commercially important softwood species.

Extension of Chemical Phytotoxicity Testing Facility for Warm-Season Turfgrasses

The turf industry needs to access a range of more selective, effective and environmentally acceptable pesticides, which will help to address environmental concerns while maintaining the industry's internationally competitive status. This includes both new pesticides being developed globally for turf use and older generic chemicals previously registered for other agricultural purposes and now requiring extension of that registration for use in turf.

Macadamia Modelling Scoping Study

Investigate the feasibility and utility of a macadamia physiological model.

Better Macadamia crop forecasting

Better Macadamia crop forecasting.

Control of Burrowing Nematodes

Control of Burrowing Nematodes.

Late Autumn Winter Spring strawberries for profit and consumer appeal

Improved cultivar.

ITC Hardwoods Nutrition R&D

Hardwoods nutrition R&D to improve tree growth, wood quality and resistance to disease attack. Improved diagnotic tools. North Queensland and Burnett region soils.

Tropical Hardwood Improvement - Base

Completed tree improvement project focussing on delivering improved mahogany varieties for the plantation industry in northern Queensland.

High-value wood products from sub-tropical plantations

To refine the emerging silvicultural systems for sub-tropical eucalypt plantations to produce logs of acceptable dimensions and quality for processing into high-value solid and engineered wood products, while maintaining financial attractiveness for growers. The available resources are focussed primarily on sub-tropical Corymbia plantings.

Salt-tolerant amenity grasses to reduce salt effect

Assess establishment and management of salt tolerant turf grasses on salt affected parklands.

ACIAR Domestication of Meliaceae species with reference to Hypsipyla

Domestication of Meliaceae, particularly Chukrasia and Toona ciliata with reference to Hypsipyla shoot borers. Clonal and silvicultural aspects.

Evaluation of APFIP (apple) varieties

Evaluation of APFIP (apple) varieties.