Guest editor’s page: the path to food security in Australia through better plant disease management

Andrew D. W. Geering

doi:10.1071/HR24013

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Guest editor’s page: the path to food security in Australia through better plant disease management

Andrew D. W. Geering

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^A Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia.

^* Correspondence to: a.geering@uq.edu.au

Historical Records of Australian Science 35(2) iii-v https://doi.org/10.1071/HR24013

Published online: 25 July 2024

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