Science and Innovation Awards for Young People
MLA is a proud sponsor of this annual event supporting young people to pursue their innovative scientific ideas that will deliver long term benefits to Australia’s rural industries.
Anthony Leddin is the Meat & Livestock Australia Award Winner for 2009, aims to find new cultivars of perennial grasses that are better suited to Australia’s changing and more extreme climatic conditions, ‘stopping grass growth under killer conditions’. The award will assist him in investigate the grass cultivars from regions in North Africa (climate conditions similar to Australia), grow selected cultivars under controlled conditions and to screen the results to examine the relationship between seed germination and photoperiod. New cultivars will help farm production by removing the need for regular re-sowing, allowing species to survive in conditions previously could not tolerate and will allow livestock production to expand into increasingly marginal areas.
For more information on the winners of 2009
In 2008, Dr Nicholas Hudson was the winner of the Meat & Livestock Australia Award & also the Ministers Award , his research was based on “Doing more with less’, a study based on molecular processes and genetic controls. By reducing feed intake of Australian cattle by 10 per cent, without compromising protein conversion, the beef industry would be able save around $59 million a year.
For more information on the winners of 2008
For more information, visit Science Awards or contact Dr Michelle McGranahan, Science Awards Manager, phone 02 6272 5039
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