Research in Progress
1998/99 Research Objectives
Table of Contents
- Biological Control Of Possums
- Physiology & Reproduction
- Sperm in the female tract - transport, storage and capacitation
- Blocking embryonic development in the brushtail possum by targeting the mucoid and shell coats, the extracellular matrix and LIF protein
- Transfer of antibody from mother to pouch young after immunisation against androgen receptor
- Transmucosal delivery of peptides to possums
- Controlled breeding technologies
- Control of reproduction by targeting the possum pituitary gland through the use of GnRH-toxin conjugates
- Microbiology/Parasitology
- Behaviour Responses
- Vaccine development
- Viruses
- Facilitating agricultural market access
- Treatment of agriculture in Regional Trade agreements and their impacts for multilateral trade negotiations
- The impact on developing countries of the Uruguay Round agreement on agriculture and the agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures
- State Trading Enterprises and the next World Trade Organisation Round: A comparative analysis focusing on trade distortion
- The impact of the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis on agriculture and forestry in New Zealand.
- Evaluation and development of wool price forecasting framework
- Facilitating horticultural market access
- Review of post-inspection security requirements for New Zealand export produce.
- Assessment of the viability of developing diagnostic tests to replace field surveys as phytosanitary measures for exports of plants and plant products
- Assessment of the practicalities of conducting pest risk analysis for export commodities, using the risk of codling moth introduction through cherry trade as an example.
- Maintaining agricultural security
- Refinement of diagnostic test methods for Johne’s disease in deer
- Examination of pasteurised milk for the presence of viable Mycobacterium paratuberculosis
- Determination of the prevalence of paramyxovirus serotypes 2, 3 and 5 in caged birds, wild birds and poultry in New Zealand
- Development of HandiRISK, software to standardise and semi-automate import risk analysis
- Validation of bluetongue PCR test
- Determining the relationship of amplicons of European Foul Brood (EFB) PCR to the bacterial fauna of New Zealand bees
- Development and validation of a serological assay for the detection of hydatid (Echinococcus granulosus) cysts in animals
- Risk assessment and management methodologies
- Promoting industry and rural community development
- Impact of agricultural change on rural communities - phase 2
- Review of overseas experience in using compulsorily acquired funds to finance industry activities such as research, generic promotion and information collection and dissemination in agriculture
- Agricultural sector debt and debt servicing
- An examination of factors affecting farmers' use of management practices to achieve sustainable agriculture: a case study approach
- Field Testing of Best Management Practice Guidelines for Sustainable Management of Irrigation Water
- Implications of groundwater nitrate standards for agricultural management
- Animal Welfare
- A benchmark survey to establish the proportion of farms and the proportion of sows that use close confinement systems and the average duration of the confinement period in each reproductive cycle
- Identifying strategies to facilitate transfer and uptake of knowledge on velveting best practice
- Additional indices of distress in lambs and calves
- Ante-mortem assessment of bobby calf welfare
- Practical guidelines for inspecting the effectiveness of stunning and slaughter in redmeat slaughterhouses
- Evaluation of the most effective use of local anaesthetic for the provision of analgesia to the velvet antler of stags
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