Pink bras, corn and the intriguing political history of genetic engineering

Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 | buncr79p | No Comments

Inaugural Professor of Agricultural Innovation at Otago University, Craig Bunt, says there has always been an approval process for GE.

“When it comes to agriculture, a lot of what we do needs approval. And so if it’s not approved, then people interpret that to mean it’s banned.”

https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350381518/pink-bras-corn-and-intriguing-political-history-genetic-engineering

 

AI developed to protect wine industry

Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 | buncr79p | No Comments

As food fraud continues to grow around the world, Otago researchers have begun a ground-breaking project aimed at protecting the New Zealand wine industry from imposters.

University of Otago food science senior lecturer Dr Biniam Kebede is developing an artificial intelligence-powered hyperspectral imaging technique to test wine authenticity and traceability — all without opening the bottle.

Read more here; https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/ai-developed-protect-wine-industry

 

Back to Adam? The long history of apples

Monday, June 10th, 2024 | buncr79p | No Comments

University of Otago agricultural innovation student Aaron Hewson has learned a lot about apples since he started researching one of our favourite fruits.

There is an old English proverb: an apple a day keeps the doctor away. When we walk into a supermarket or go to the farmers market, we might get a choice of 10 different kinds of apples to shoo away that dastardly doctor. Perhaps this seems like a lot of options compared to the single choice of Cavendish banana we get, but it pales in comparison to the 20,000 named apple varieties found throughout the world.

Read here; https://sod.co.nz/2024/06/07/an-introduction-to-apples/

Free-market approaches do not sit well with science

Monday, June 10th, 2024 | buncr79p | No Comments

Free markets do not respond well to things that are slow to change – we need to set deep and long-lived national research, science, and technology goals

Read here; https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/10/free-market-approaches-do-not-sit-well-with-science/ 

CRAIG BUNT

Professor Craig Bunt (Te Ātiawa), is the Programme Director of Agricultural Innovation at the University of Otago. More by Craig Bunt

 

PROFESSOR JON HICKFORD

Jon Hickford is a Professor of Agricultural Science at Lincoln University More by Professor Jon Hickford

 
 
 

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