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20 December 2021

Co-sponsoring undergraduate pathways for Māori and Pasifika students

Bioprotection Aotearoa, is the latest co-sponsor of MacDiarmid’s Institute  Discovery Scholarships programme, that nurtures a pathway for undergraduate Māori and Pasifika students interested in STEM. Through collaboration the most difficult challenges…

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19 July 2021

What’s in a brand?

Creating the new brand and logo for Bioprotection Aotearoa was a collaborative effort, involving many different people with many different roles in the new Centre of Research Excellence. It started…

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19 July 2021

What is Bioprotection Aotearoa?

Bioprotection Aotearoa is a new Centre of Research Excellence, built on the whakapapa of the Bio-Protection Research Centre. However, it is not a simple continuation – it is an evolution….

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16 June 2021

Indigenous fungus may help to control wilding pines

An indigenous New Zealand fungus may help to control wilding pines – one of the country’s most ecologically damaging weed species – a student’s research project shows. ​Wilding pine control…

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16 June 2021

Native plants may be weapon against soil contamination

​New Zealand’s native plants may help to reduce bacterial contamination caused by dairy effluent, a new study suggests. ​Researchers from the Bio-Protection Research Centre, ESR, and the University of Canterbury…

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15 June 2021

Study challenges assumptions on why exotic plants thrive

​Invasion ecology has long suggested exotic species can become successful by escaping their natural enemies. A long-running Bio-Protection Research Centre experiment challenges this, showing that exotic plants dominate their communities,…

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15 June 2021

Genetic science could enhance New Zealand bioheritage

​Genetic and genomic technologies have potential to enhance New Zealand’s bioheritage, but we shouldn’t expect to see “de-extinctions” or gene drives any time soon, say authors of a paper in…

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