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• FWPA call for project funding proposals to close 15 March.

  FWPA invites the submission of detailed research proposals for projects commencing from 1 May 2016 addressing published FWPA industry research priorities. Details of current research prioritie... Read More

• FWPA call for R&D project funding proposals closed 30 October

  In September FWPA invited the submission of detailed research proposals for projects commencing from 1 March 2016 addressing published FWPA industry research priorities.  The round close... Read More

• FWPA seeks industry feedback on the value of suggested future projects

  Industry members are invited to deliver their verdicts on a number of proposed projects relating to data analysis and forecasting, as outlined in a newly-released industry consultation documen... Read More

• Gene manipulation boosts tree growth rate and size

  Trees may be a renewable resource, but the rate of this renewal may not meet the increasing demand for plant biomass. But now researchers at the University of Manchester have potentially found... Read More

• Gene-silencing technology to increase tree resilience

  The agricultural industry is likely to benefit from an ability to protect plants from diseases and develop new plant varieties with favourable attributes, thanks to a technology that has long ... Read More

• Getting to the heart of wood formation

  North Carolina State University researchers have uncovered how a complex network of transcription factors switch wood formation genes on and off. Understanding this transcriptional regulatory ... Read More

• Glowing trees could one day replace electric lighting

  MIT engineers have successfully induced a watercress plant to give off dim light for nearly four hours, by embedding specialised nanoparticles into its leaves. “The vision is to make a plant ... Read More

• Glulam timber bridges viable for country roads

  The next generation of bridges in country roads could be made of glulam – structural timber made of layers of wood strips bonded with glue. Researchers from the J. Lohr Structures Lab in the ... Read More

• Graphene ‘tattoo’ could make drought-resistant plants a reality

  Plant breeders could soon have access to an innovative new tool that will measure the water intake of individual plants, allowing them to choose parent stock which can better survive in condit... Read More

• Green Stars for Australian timber

  For the Australian forest and timber industry, producing products that can be used by builders of Green Star sustainably rated buildings makes good economic and environmental sense. A range of... Read More

• Greenhouse gas benefits of wood pellet trade

  Power utility companies in the United Kingdom are using imported wood pellets from the southern region of the United States for electricity generation to meet the legally binding mandate of so... Read More

• Gumnut babies thrive if mother well cared for

  Flooded gum (Eucalyptus grandis) seedlings’ growth rates can be affected by the growing conditions the parent plants experienced. The ‘maternal environment effect’ has been known for more tha... Read More

• Harvest forwarder productivity based on automated data collection

  Recent developments in on-board technology have enabled automatic collection of follow-up data on forwarder work. The objective of this study was to obtain highly representative information on... Read More

• Harvesting timber – and carbon credits

  When people draw trees, they usually show a trunk, branches and leaves – leaving the roots out of the picture. Similarly, when estimating forest carbon storage, the roots are often not counte... Read More

• Help for businesses to comply with Australian illegal logging laws

  On 30th November 2014 the Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment Regulation comes into force. The Regulation and its associated Act prohibits the import into Australia of illegally harvested ti... Read More

• Hemp at the heart of WA's first eco-village

  The project manager of Western Australia's first eco-village, partly built with hemp, believes the finished product will add weight to the growing push for it to be widely used in the construc... Read More

• High speed gene mapping can improve Teratosphaeria disease resistance in Blue gum.

  This FWPA-funded research used newly developed genome sequencing techniques to find trees in large populations of plantation Blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) in Tasmania and Western Australia th... Read More

• High tech monitoring of old growth forests

  Drones, laser scanners, planes and sharp shooters have been put to work in the Tasmanian forest to better understand the environmental effects of forest management regimes. Researchers from T... Read More

• High-speed 'trees' generate electricity from wind

  Small electromechanical structures that look like trees shaking in a storm could prove to be the next big thing in energy generation. Research announced by the Ohio State University points to ... Read More

• How terrain slope affects the machine slope when harvesting

  Steep terrain harvesting can be expensive and have high safety risks. Mechanised ground-based machines are increasingly being used on steeper slopes to decrease harvesting costs and improve sa... Read More