Research

26-28 August 2006 - Acacia 2006

FJC Rogers Seminar Melbourne - hosted by the Australian Plants Society (SGAP Victoria) Inc., APS Maroondah and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.

Notes from the Proceedings

The following are abstracts of talks given at the conference. Each abstract has full contact details for the speaker. For an expanded version of the subject it would be best to contact the speaker or institution directly.

Australian Wattles: an overview - Bruce Maslin and Maurice McDonald- Dept of Environment and Conservation, WA Herbarium

Why grow Acacias - Trevor Blake

Small and interesting Acacias - Neil Marriott

Wattles - Direct seeding and Rhizobium - Alison Jeavons et al.

Propagation of wattles from seed - Marilyn Sprague

Propagation by cuttings - acacias - Alan Lacey

Nurturing Wattles - Their Cultivation and Care - Rodger Elliott

A Garden of Wattles - Paul Thompson

The diversity and evolutionary relationships of Australian Acacias - John Reid and Dan Murphy

Dalwallinu: Wattle Capital of the World - Robert Nixon

The many uses of Australian Wattles: from leather and perfume to fine furniture and bread - Suzette Searle

Historical aspects of Wattles: The Cultivation of Australian Acacias in Great Britain and Europe during the 18th and 19th Centuries - Tony Cavanagh

Australian Acacias in Europe - Wolf-Achim Roland

Generic and infrageneric names in Acacia following retypification of the genus - Bruce Maslin

What happened to Acacia? Recent molecular systematics and nomenclatural changes to Acacia - Joseph Miller

Australian acacias and their tropical legume relatives - Gillian Brown, Daniel Murphy, Joseph Miller and Pauline Ladiges

The diversity and evolutionary relationships of Australian acacias - Gillian Brown, Daniel Murphy, Joseph Miller and Pauline Ladiges

Acacia: a case of unique foliage - Stuart Gardner

Acacia thrips: patterns of host-plant exploitation in a single lineage of insects - Laurence Mound and David C. Morris

Using plant-soil interractions to optimise revegetation strategies - Peter Thrall, David Bagnall, Jo Slattery, Linda Broadhurst, Andrew Young

Biological control of invasive native plants: conceptual development using Australian acacias as a case study - Robin J Adair

Acacias as cut flowers - postharvest physiology, handling and export - John Faragher, Francha Horlock and Rod Jones

Wattle seed as part of the Australian native food industry - Maarten Ryder and Yvonne Latham

AcaciaSearch: evaluation of Acacia as a woody crop option for southern Australia - Bruce Maslin

Commercial applications for Acacia in agroforestry systems of the grain belt - Ben Boxshall

Australian acacias for agro-forestry farming systems in semi arid regions in developing countries - Tony Rinaudo

Reproductive biology and germplasm evaluation of Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Delile from North India - V.K. Singhal, A. Kaur and M.I.S. Saggoo

Turning exotic Acacia species to agroforestry plantations and improving the degraded forest lands in Bangladesh - Mohammed Kamal Hossain