Wild Macadamia Conservation
This project brings together specialists in entomology, macadamia pollination, bee behaviour, neuromorphic systems and machine learning from Western Sydney University to use neuromorphic machine learning to search satellite imagery for undiscovered wild populations of M. tetraphylla, the species that has lost the most habitat through clearing. Selected sites will then be monitored for pest and …
Dr Albert Wong is working with a team at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation investigating the potential to grow macadamias through tissue culture. This WMC grant supports a project aiming to develop a tissue culture protocol for Macadamia jansenii, because so far, every individual macadamia tested requires a specific combination of growing …
This project seeks to investigate which fungal groups are associated with the roots of M. tetraphylla. Mollie will use eDNA techniques to look at the M. tetraphylla root mycobiome – that is, the fungal community that lives within plant roots. This includes mycorrhizal fungi that can grow around and inside roots and even into the …
