GROWING HEALTH

PROJECT SUMMARY

To understand the trade-offs and co-benefits of delivering healthier agroecosystems using bio-inspired innovations and decision making to improve crop/forage productivity and quality, reduce pest pressures and improve water/air quality via reduced nutrient losses.

DETAIL

The programme will focus on three main areas:

1. Biointeractions: looking at gene function in insects and weeds and biointeractions during cropping transitions
2. Soil environments: explorign rhizosphere processes and extending soil phenotypes
3. Discovery landscapes: optimising agroecosystems across landscapes and improving health indicators and metrics in agroecosystems