Smart forest alliance queensland

The research aims to boost to Queensland's hardwood plantation industry, encouraging industry investment by promoting the potential for our hardwood plantation forests to be carbon sinks for companies and individuals.

 
GRANT/FUNDER
Innovation Projects Fund, National and International Research Alliances program – Department of State Development, 2008
TEAM
Helen Wallace, Stephen Trueman, David Walton, Christian Jones, Peter Waterman
PARTNERS
Queensland and Northern Territory departments of primary industries, CSIRO, and two national timber companies: Integrated Tree Cropping Ltd and Forest Enterprises Australia Ltd
STATUS
Completed
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OUTCOMES
The Smart Forests Alliance Queensland (SFAQ) developed world-leading biotechnology to accelerate production of fast growing trees suited to the forest plantation industry in tropical and subtropical agricultural environments, developed a range of new technologies and germplasms that have excellent prospects for export, and has also evaluated the risk of genetic pollution from these plantations into native forests and identified risk to plantations from climate change.
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