The Bio-Protection Research Centre
Our world-leading research focuses on finding new, non-pesticide and sustainable solutions that protect New Zealand's plant-based, productive ecosystems from existing and potentially invasive pests, diseases and weeds. This is of vital importance to the future development of the economy, especially in light of a burgeoning and diversifying trade and tourism environment.
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Protecting against invasive exotic species by developing innovative diagnostic tools and technologies, building new informatics and computational systems, and understanding invasion processes.
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Understanding ecosystem dynamics for sustainable agriculture and environmental protection.
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Understanding cellular interactions to develop superior crops with enhanced pest and pathogen resistance.
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Protecting plants from pest threats using systems and approaches that are grounded in traditional and contemporary matauranga Maori knowledge. Encouraging Maori students into bioprotection science.
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