#PlantSuccess November 2025 #newsletter is out now! 👀 Read it here: bit.ly/PS-newslette... 📨 Subscribe here: bit.ly/PS-News-Subs... 🧪

We are getting close to planting our target 26,800 plots for the year. Unbelivable effort from our hard working technical team at UQ and Queensland DPI.

Great to catch up with Alex Wu and to check out our @theGRDC @GRDCNorth experiment focused on improving photosynthesis and transpiration in sorghum.

Great to see the almost perfect establishment in our GRDC DPI sorghum lodging experiment. Love sorghum!

Registrations for the International Safe Cassava Network are now open. Free, online only. Interdisciplinary. More details coming soon - 4 x 2 hour sessions spread over 2 days #cassava #plantscience #cyanide #konzo #theISCN 🌿🌱🌾🧪 globalplantcouncil.org/event/intern...

Getting excellent germination results from last year's hybrid seed. Bodes well for good trials this year.

First time I have seen a Rakali or Australian water rat.

Very excited that our student Laura won the best student talk at #APBC2025 for work on female fertility in sorghum with @emmaomics.bsky.social

Great set of sorghum talks at the Australasian Plant Breeding Conference 8% of the program #APBC

I love wattle!

Great night for star gazing. This photo was taken with my mobile phone. I am so lucky to live where I do. Light polution means that many people never see the stars.

Beautiful day at Girraween National Park

🚨 CLOSING SOON! Don't miss your chance to enter our #BreedingImpact social media competition. Share your plant breeding story and you could win cash prizes at #APBC2025. Tag @APBC25 & submit by May 23rd! Enter here: forms.gle/9MsM5w8WKimh...

Please share: Registration is now open for EUCARPIA Biometrics in Plant Breeding 2025 highlanderlab.github.io/EUCARPIA2025...

Want to improve the cost effectiveness of your breeding program learn about the UQ costing tool by listening to @emmaomics.bsky.social talk at @apbc2025.bsky.social

Australian democracy in action. 1. Mandatory voting 2. 90% turnout 3. independent commission sets boundaries 4. short campaigns 5. limits on donations 6. preferential voting 7. paper ballots 9. sausage sizzle 10. lots of polling places 11. in out 10min 12. results usually known on the day.

Wow! I got within 10 metres of a wedge tail eagle today, Australia's largest bird of prey. Great start to my weekend bushwalk at Goomburra

Using a penatrometer to look for associations with stalk lodging in sorghum.

Our divergent selection experiment is in full swing led by Sofie Pearson. 6000 individually RFID tagged plants phenotypes before flowering enabling data driven crosses to be made. Great support for this work from Sean MRR and Colleen Hunt #logistics #fielddata

The durra race of sorghum is a favourite. Interesting history. The goose neck phenotype is common.

Great to get @emmaomics.bsky.social out in the field today to see some genotypes that are not just a string of zeros and ones 000111010101

After 35 years I still get joy out of single head harvesting of new populations. #loveplantbreeding

Big morning of hand harvesting today. 500 AxR plots. Many hands make light work.

Our divergent selection experiment is in full swing led by Sofie Pearson. 6000 individually RFID tagged plants phenotypes before flowering enabling data driven crosses to be made. Great support for this work from Sean MRR and Colleen Hunt #logistics #fielddata

Sorghum is starting to colour

Sorghum in the evening light

3 hours in the bush. Not a single human. Magic I am very lucky to live where I live.

Gorgeous view, with some sorghum in the foreground.

My new NEMO Mayfly tent is easy to erect and keeps the rain and bugs out. I call that a win.

Koreelah National Park is worth visiting

Busy last day at work before Christmas

It was lovely to be able to attend the graduation of my daughter from her MSc at UQ with my sister, who is also a professor at UQ.

We are looking for a Senior Research Fellow (Crop Physiology) to work with our sorghum research group. This is a great opportunity to build an impactful career in a supportive research environment 5-year contract. tinyurl.com/yc7f6ekf

Huge sorghum field season ahead, needing lots of preparation. The number of RF ID tags needed is growing! Seamless logistics to ensure sample and data tracking for many 1000s of plots. Very lucky to work with a fantastic cross organisational @qaafi.bsky.social and QLD DPI sorghum team.

Want to build a career in sorghum physiology and genetics research? A fantastic opportunity available at @qaafi.bsky.social working with a great team including @sorgguy.bsky.social and @thegodwinexx.bsky.social. Applications close 12 Jan 2025

We are looking forward a Senior Research Fellow in Crop Physiology (5 year contract) to work with our sorghum research group in @qaafi.bsky.social. This is a great opportunity to build an impactful career in a supportive research environment at The University of Queensland. tinyurl.com/4mbha5hf

Engineer in his natural habitat.

We are looking for a Senior Research Fellow (Crop Physiology) to work with our sorghum research group. This is a great opportunity to build an impactful career in a supportive research environment 5-year contract. tinyurl.com/yc7f6ekf

We are looking for a Senior Research Fellow (Crop Physiology) to work with our sorghum research group. This is a great opportunity to build an impactful career in a supportive research environment 5-year contract. tinyurl.com/yc7f6ekf

We are looking for a Senior Research Fellow (Crop Physiology) to work with our sorghum research group. This is a great opportunity to build an impactful career in a supportive research environment 5-year contract. ttps://tinyurl.com/yc7f6ekf

This years UQ sorghum diversity panel trial is growing amazing well despite its hail induced defoliation. Sorghum is tough!

Sorghum loving life.

Congratulations to QAAFI's Prof Ben Hayes, again named in the 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list. #UQ received 39 awards this year. bit.ly/3CRRCP4

Nice fat python crossing the road.

Wow. Glorious day in SE Queensland

It is lovely to get out in the rainforest again after a big break

This is an interesting, cleistogamous sorghum genotype

One of the best sunset shots I have ever taken.