QAAFI Science Seminar
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, 15 June 2021
- Time:
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Location:
- Zoom Webinar
- URL:
- https://qaafi.uq.edu.au/event/session/9781
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Tyne Hamilton
- Phone:
- 62168
- Email:
- t.hamilton@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Dr Alice Hayward from QAAFI's Centre for Horticultural Science will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.
“Smashed Avocado” is the most Instagrammed food in the world and the posterchild of millennial ‘wellness’. But in the lab, avocado is a recalcitrant and difficult beast!
In this seminar, Dr Alice Hayward from the Mitter Lab at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation will take you on a journey describing a large team effort bringing the world’s first avocado tissue cultured plants from the lab to the orchard and hopefully soon to an Instagrammable plate near you.
Updates will be shared including progress across various cultivars, and the results of three years of field trials testing plant performance. In addition, she will cover the work of research partners on industry uptake and perceptions of tissue culture as well as predicted financial implications of the trees entering the market.
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