Grant success for Centre Director

October 30, 2015
Filed under: News,Uncategorized — dmathew @ 10:13 am

Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham (on behalf The Australian Research Council) has just announced a new round of funding at the Australian National Wine Centre in Adelaide. Centre Director, Vincent Bulone was present to hear he was successful with his ARC Discovery Project application that will look into cell wall structure and dynamics in emerging […]

A better source for biofuel?

October 7, 2015

Researchers at the Centre have showed that the agave plant, best known for producing tequila in Mexico, could produce up to 15,000 litres per hectare a year of biofuel ̶ and it grows on marginal land under low rainfall conditions. The paper, titled “Prospecting for Energy-Rich Renewable Raw Materials: Agave Leaf Case Study” published in the journal […]