Current Research
Currently the Rapid Assessment Unit is conducting research in the areas of horticulture, seafood quality and safety including:
Current projects and future research directions
- Aging tropical fish otoliths for harvest management
- Fish flavour assessment
- Seafood quality and safety assessment
- Quality attributes of pineapples
- Quality assessment of dairy products
- Robotic automation and non-invasive assessment for fruit harvesting and packing.
- Rapid and non-invasive assessment of horticultural produce for export requirements.
Recent research activities
- Grading of sweet corn for defects and packaging requirements
- Grading avocados for maturity (dry matter/oil content) and eating quality
- Prediction of rot development (shelf life) in avocados for export potential
- Grading avocados for impact damage (bruises)
- Assessment of microbial levels in prawns
- Non-invasive assessment of external and internal quality attributes of brushed potatoes for value adding
- Rapid assessment of essential oils in sandalwood
- Kiwi fruit quality grading
- Quality assessment of mussels
- Rapid assessment of bioactive compounds in honey
- Profiling eating quality of mangoes
- Prediction of Antioxidant levels in Queen Garnet plums
- Grading sweetness levels in lychee’s
- Identification of colony and nest of origin of weaver ants
- Prediction of dietary selectivity in the Green Ringtail Possum
- Seagrass nutrition assessment
- Leaf litter assessment
