Our world-leading research focuses on finding new, non-pesticide and sustainable solutions that protect New Zealand's plant-based, productive ecosystems from the threat of 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.
World-leading biosecurity
Protecting against invasive exotic species by developing innovative diagnostic tools and technologies, building new informatics and computational systems, and understanding invasion processes.
Sustainable bioprotection
Understanding ecosystem dynamics for sustainable agriculture and environmental protection.
Plant bioprotection systems biology
Understanding cellular interactions to develop superior crops with enhanced pest and pathogen resistance.
Maori bioprotection
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.
