{"id":43158,"date":"2023-03-08T03:15:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T04:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/?p=43158"},"modified":"2023-03-08T04:35:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T04:35:43","slug":"cotton-researcher-neena-mitter-one-of-50-women-at-the-cutting-edge-of-australian-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/2023\/03\/08\/cotton-researcher-neena-mitter-one-of-50-women-at-the-cutting-edge-of-australian-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton researcher Neena Mitter: one of 50 women at the cutting edge of Australian science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Neena20Mitter.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"main-article-body of-type-RDC\">\n<p>On International Women\u2019s Day, Professor Neena Mitter of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) has been named one of 50 women at the cutting edge of Australian science by Cosmos Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Neena is the research lead for a game-changing crop protection approach, BioClay\u2122, a safe and sustainable alternative to chemical pesticides. BioClay has been developed over the past decade by the University of Queensland\u2019s Qld Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) and the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) with support from CRDC, Hort Innovation and Nufarm.<\/p>\n<p>BioClay is considered a game-changer for crop protection because it\u2019s effective against whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), responsible for the loss of billions of dollars in agricultural crops around the world \u2013 including in cotton.<\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3515969088936742\" data-ad-slot=\"4850877326\"><\/ins> <\/p>\n<div class=\"shim-wrap float-right mt-2\"> <button class=\"shim-summ text-right\">Source <i class=\"fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i> <i class=\"fa fa-caret-down\"><\/i><\/button> <\/p>\n<div class=\"shim-detail\">\/Public Release. View in full <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On International Women\u2019s Day, Professor Neena Mitter of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43161,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158\/revisions\/43161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}