Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

The University of Queensland

Queensland University of Technolgy

The State of Queensland Department of Primary Industries

Bioherbicides Australia Pty Ltd

Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations

Bureau of Sugar Experiments Stations

Kenneth Clifford Goulter

John Michael Manners

Jodie Lyn Green

John Paul Marcus

Neil Ivan Bower

Peter Riikonen

Stuart John Harrison

A method of controlling the growth of a plant is provided, the method including the steps of: (a) inserting a capsule containing an agent into an opening formed in a plant; and (b) closing the opening formed in the plant into which the capsule is inserted. The agent may be a chemical agent. The plant may be a woody plant, such as a woody weed or a woody cultivated plant. Also provided is a capsule containing an agent for insertion into a plant, and an apparatus for insertion of a capsule into a plant.

Method and apparatus for capsular delivery to plants

A new family of antimicrobial proteins is described. Prototype proteins can be isolated fromas well as other plant species. DNA encoding the protein is also described as well as DNA constructs which can be used to express the antimicrobial protein or to introduce the antimicrobial protein into a plant. Compositions comprising the antimicrobial protein or the antimicrobial protein per se can be administered to plants or mammalian animals to combat microbial infestation.

Antimicrobial proteins

The subject invention relates to DNA encoding an anti-microbial protein fromand variants of the protein that are less sensitive to Ca. The invention further relates to constructs comprising the DNA, and host cells, plants and plant material comprising such constructs.

DNA encoding a macadamia integrifolia anti-microbial protein, constructs comprising the same and plant material comprising the constructs

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Jamboree Heights, Australia

Kenneth Clifford Goulter