Susan Kirk | Journalist

Farmer Alan Lemon was instrumental in introducing high oil, semi-dwarf, sunflower germplasm to Australia and the innovative international marketing of the new oilseed crops. At the time the only oil…

(published in Australian Horticulture April 2011) A proposal to amend the federal Criminal Code Act could see a number of plants species become outlawed. The proposed amendment is a result…

Some of science’s most powerful statements are not made in words. From the diagrams of DaVinci to Rosalind Franklins x-rays, visualization of research has a long and literally illustrious history….

At first, the back room of plant physiologist Edgar Spalding’s lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison might be mistaken for an alien space ship set straight out of a Hollywood…