Auld, Bruce Archibald   (1945 -  )

Born 26 September 1945 in Sydney, NSW; .

B.Sc.Agr. 1967 University of Sydney.
M.Sc.Agr. 1970 University of Sydney.
Ph.D. (Botany) 1974 University of Sydney.

Post-Doctoral Fellow:
- University of Sydney, Botany Department, 1974.
- Reading University, U.K. Botany Department, 1975.

1976-2004
Based at NSW Agriculture's Orange Agricultural Institute as a Principal Research Scientist. He worked on a range of weed ecology and biocontrol projects in temperate and semi-arid agriculture and collaborated with economists on several weed management topics.

2001-2002
Visiting Professor, Kyoto University. Lecturing and supervision of postgraduates in plant sciences.

2000-2006
Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney. Lecturing to undergraduates, supervision of postgraduates, mentoring junior lecturers.

His research included investigating the influence of spatial arrangement of crop plants on yield, weed ecology and economics of control, and biological control of weeds using naturally occurring fungi.

He was the inventor of the first patent for a bioherbicide in Australia; part of this research was funded by the Swiss based multinational, Sandoz. He developed a major biocontrol project in Vietnam (1994-2004) sponsored by Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research and another long-term project on biocontrol of Xanthium spp. sponsored by the Australian Wool Corporation which involved collecting biocontrol agents in Argentina.

He was an initiator and a program leader for the Australia-wide Cooperative Research Centre for Weed Management Systems and a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Source: Extracted from:
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW), Sat 29 Sep 1945, Page 30, Family Notices
https://csu-au.academia.edu/BruceAuld/CurriculumVitae
Portrait Photo: from CV above.

Collecting localities for 'Auld, B. and Auld, B.A.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 370 specimens