From "CSIRO research for Australia" (1962) pdf pages 18-20:
"The Division of Plant Industry is both the oldest and the largest of C.S.I.R.O. Divisions. In the early days it was called the Division of Economic Botany, and consisted of a number of research workers scattered around Australia, housed in the laboratories of various universities and Departments of Agriculture. The Chief was Dr. B. T. Dickson, who came out to Australia from Canada, where he had been Professor of Plant Pathology at McGill University. After Dr. Dickson retired in 1950, Dr. 0. H. Frankel F.R.S., came from New Zealand's Wheat Research Institute to take the Chief's position.
In 1930 new laboratories were built in Canberra for the Divisions of Plant Jndustry and Entomology. Since that time the buildings have been extended, glasshouses have been built, and a major new research facility for growing plants in a range of controlled conditions, sometimes called a "phytotron", has been constructed. The Division of Plant Industry's work encompasses genetics and plant breeding, plant introduction, microbiology, general chemistry, plant nutrition, plant biochemistry and biophysics, ecology, agricultural physics and agronomy. Pastures and special crops are studied at field stations and laboratories in Western Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales and Queensland. Canberra, with over a hundred plant scientists, has become one of the largest pla_nt research centres in the world. Much
of the Division's work is designed to serve the needs of the sheep industry, which is contributing substantially to the cost of the research programme through the Wool Research Trust Fund."
"The Division has grown steadily over the years as more and more crucial problems in Australian agriculture have come to light. Two other Divisions, Land Research and Regional Survey, began as groups within the Division of Plant Industry. The work of the Division has been brought to bear on almost every part of Australia's expanding primary industry."
In 2014 the Plant Industry website stated:
"Plant Industry promotes profitable and sustainable agrifood, fibre and horticultural industries, developing new plant products and improving how plants use natural resources through world-leading research."
1946 - ?
Research Scientist 1956 - 1968; Chief Research Scientist 1968 - 1977
Chairman of the Biochemistry Section of the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO, 1979 - 1982
Assistant Chief 1945 - 1954
Chief 2003 - 2012
Chief 1978 - 2003; CSIRO Medal for Leadership of the Division of Plant Industry 1989
Chief 1951 - 1962; Honorary Research Fellow 1966 - 1994
Chief Research Scientist 2006 - 2008
Technical Officer then Experimental Officer Chemist 1954 - 1957
Experimental Officer 1961 - 1964
Chief 1971 - 1978
1930 - 1956
Head, Agrostology Section 1938 - 1952; Associate Chief 1952 - 1959
Research Officer 1955 - 1964
Research Scientist 1975 - 1976
Retired from the RainForest Ecology Section 1980
Senior Principal Research Scientist and Program Leader, Australian Flora Resources and Management Program 1989 - 1996
Scientist 1962 - 1994
Research scientist 1947 -1960
Chief Research Scientist, Agriculture and Food 2013 -
Deputy Chief 2003 - 2006, 2013 - 2014
Curator of the Herbarium 1946 - 1973; Senior Principal Research Scientist 1967 - 1973
Chief Research Scientist, Wheat Research Unit 1982 - 1988
Chief 1929 - 1951
Senior Research Officer 1929 - 1937; Principle Research Officer 1937 - 1939 for the Noxious Weeds Section at the Division of Plant Industry.
Senior Plant Pathologist to 1940, Principal Plant Pathologist 1940-1958
Between 1946 and 1950 Harold Frith worked at the Irrigation Research Station, Division of Plant Industry.
Senoir Principal Research Scientist 2001 -
Research scientist 1956
Sub-Program Leader, Genetic Improvement of Australian Cotton 2006 -
Biometrician and Senior Principal Research Scientist in the Division of Mathematical Statistics that sat within the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry.
Chief 1963 - 1970
Principal Research Scientist 1973 - 1980; Senior Principal Research Scientist 1980 - 1987; Chief Research Scientist 1987
1960 - 1962
Research Scientist 1972 - 1974; Senior Research Scientist, Principal Research Scientist, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Chief Research Scientist 1991 - 2014
Senior Research Fellow, Genetics Section 1953 - 1956
Research Scientist 1961 - 1981; Chief Research Scientist 1982
Research Scientist 1974
Research Officer 1954 - 1972; Chief Research Scientist 1972 - 1994; Honorary Research Fellow 1994
Chief Research Scientist 1956 - 1977
Chemist 1930 - 1936; Technical Officer 1937 - 1942; Assistant Research Officer 1943 - 1946; Research Officer 1947 - 1960
Senior Research Scientist then Chief Research Scientist 1955 - 1974
NATO Research Fellowship 1963 - 1964
Chief Research Scientist, Division of Plant Industry, 1970 - .1997
Member, Advisory Committee 1987 - 1992
Research (later Principal Research) Scientist 1998 -
1949 - 1973
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