30 June 2022
The Ministry for the Environment consulted on a draft national plan to help Aotearoa New Zealand adapt to and minimise the harmful impacts of climate change. Professor Anita Wreford prepared…
13 June 2022
Download now > This Annual Report for 2021, is the first chapter of our story which conveys our purpose and direction. Bioprotection Aotearoa is a National Centre of Research Excellence…
27 May 2022
Clonally propagated monoculture crop plants facilitate the emergence and spread of new diseases. Plant pathogens cause disease by the secretion of effectors that function by repressing the host defense response….
18 May 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow Elizabeth Elliot Noe has always followed The Conversation. Feeling brave, Elizabeth decided to pitch a story idea to them. She submitted a 900-word article about planting more native…
11 May 2022
Director for Bioprotection Aotearoa, Professor Amanda Black was interviewed recently by Nature. Amanda discusses how Māori deeply care for the environment and biodiversity of Aotearoa New Zealand, as this is…
The New York Times talks to our very own Dr. Nick Waipara and other Māori researchers about Māori led interventions to save kauri from kauri dieback. Nick discusses the competitive…
29 April 2022
Highlights Nature-based management uses biodiversity and targeted biotic introductions to improve sustainable agroecosystem production, but results have been variable. A network perspective can drive research to improve the future design…
This radio interview features Professor Peter Dearden, a Deputy Director for Bioprotection Aotearoa. Peter is also the director of Genomics Aotearoa and discusses with Wallace Chapman from RNZ the launch…
27 April 2022
This article features comments from Professor Anita Wreford, a researcher for Bioprotection Aotearoa, who welcomes public consultation following the release of the draft National Adaptation Plan. Anita comments on…
14 March 2022
Epigenetic DNA methylation plays an important role in bacteria by influencing gene expression and allowing discrimination between self-DNA and intruders such as phages and plasmids. Restriction–modification (RM) systems use a…
3 March 2022
This article features Distinguished Professor Philip Hulme, who is a Deputy Director at Bioprotection Aotearoa. Philip lends his expertise on an article about management efforts to eradicate wilding pines in Aotearoa. READ…
28 February 2022
Professor Nick Roskruge is a Deputy Director and leading researcher at Bioprotection Aotearoa. He wrote an article for Stuff discussing the whakapapa of soil and its defining pronouncement which establishes…