| Specific areas of staff and postgraduate research are: |
| Agribusiness, e.g., agricultural and horticultural production; food and fibre processing; finance; international business; marketing; personnel management. Contact group(s): Agriculture. |
| Agricultural science, e.g., crop science, pasture, agronomy, pest and disease control, animal nutrition, molecular biology, soil and environmental quality and organic production. Contact group(s): Agriculture. |
| Agro-ecology and organic production, e.g., conservation biocontrol; population ecology; soil functional biology; soil fertility; pest and disease control; organic production techniques. Contact group(s): Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty; Soil and physical sciences. |
| Animal science, e.g., animal breeding and genetics, molecular genetics of animal production, health and welfare, minerals and vitamin nutrition, interaction of nutrition and immunology, parasite control, vaccine development , sustainable animal production, reproductive biology, computer tomography of animal composition, grazing behaviour, pastoral farming systems. Contact group(s): Agriculture; Cell biology. |
| Biosecurity, e.g., molecular taxonomy and DNA diagnostic procedures to identify exotic pests and diseases; intelligent computing for modelling biosecurity risk assessments and pest invasiveness. Contact group(s): Cell biology; Economics and finance; Bio-Protection and ecology. |
| Crop sciences, e.g., water use studies; predicting development and flowering of crops; annual crop rotation effects on weeds and soil fertility; interactions with weeds, pests and diseases; production of high quality seed crops; and the use of biotechnological methods for improving crop yields. Contact group(s): Agriculture. |
| Dairy science, e.g., genetics and breeding, molecular genetics of health and welfare; mineral nutrition; feeding and management systems; mineral leaching, environmental and economic sustainability of farming systems. Contact group(s): Cell biology, Agriculture. |
| Farm management, e.g., agribusiness and industry analysis; business strategies/entrepreneurship; decision making and technology adoption; employment relations and labour management; farm financial management; farming and horticultural systems analysis; horticultural history; information and decision systems; regional and national issues; risk perceptions and management; rural development . Contact group(s): Agriculture. |
Forestry studies, e.g., near-natural management of plantation forests; agroforestry including shelter and soil conservation forestry; control of weeds, pests and diseases; aspects of forest valuation. Contact group(s): Agriculture, Soil and physical sciences; Economics and finance.
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Horticultural Sciences, e.g., horticultural production, Integrated Pest Management; horticultural management, viticulture, processing, marketing. Contact group(s): Food and wine; Agriculture
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| International rural development, e.g., livelihoods analysis, gender and development, rural enterprise, pro-poor tourism, rural extension, micro-finance, aid projects, project management (developing countries), community development, inter-cultural communication, sustainable development. Contact group(s): Agriculture; Economics and finance; Environmental management. |
| Pasture science, e.g., investigating the role of high nutritive value species (lucerne, red clover, sub clover, chicory) as alternatives to ryegrass/white clover in drought prone areas; Comparison of Caucasian and white clover performance under grazing; Utilising crop simulation models to investigate the effects of climate change and drought intensity on lucerne growth, development and nutritional quality; The interaction between pastures and trees; Grazing preference of sheep influences animal growth rates and pasture composition dryland sheep, high country, and dairy farms; Plant protection. Contact group(s): Agriculture. |
| Plant protection, e.g., biological control of weeds, pests and diseases, integrated pest management; population ecology, seed pathology; disease risk assessment and forecasting; agro-ecology; grape pest and disease management; weed science and management; plant pathology; entomology. Contact group(s): Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty; Food and wine. |
| Seed science and technology, e.g., quality seed production; seed quality assurance; post-harvest seed technology; seed pathology; seed testing. Contact group(s): Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty. |
| Viticulture, e.g., grapevine photosynthesis, flowering and fruit set, fruit composition, vine water relations and nutrition, bird management in vineyards, phytoalexins in grapes & wine, rootstocks and plant material, biochemical and molecular studies on aroma precursor development. Contact group(s): Food and wine. |
| Weed science, e.g., biological control of weeds; weed ecology and biology; integrated weed management. Bio-Protection and ecology; Agriculture. Contact group(s): Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty; Agriculture. |