Lumen Waite 100 - Flipbook - Page 28
1965
Purpose-built
Waite Library
constructed.
1964 Elizabeth Rose
Schneider is first female
Bachelor of Agricultural
Science graduate.
1984 The Waite Agricultural
Research Institute: The First
Fifty Years 1924-1974 by V.
A. Edgeloe published.
1967 CSIRO’s Division
of Horticultural
Research headquartered
at Waite campus.
1980 Urrbrae
House added to the
South Australian
Heritage Register.
1968 Clipper barley
variety released
from the Waite
and becomes the
dominant Australian
malting barley variety
for two decades.
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1988 K1026, an antibiotic
used to inoculate plants
against crown gall, is
commercially released,
becoming the first living
genetically engineered
organism in the world
released for commercial use.
