While there's a lot to preserve — about 4,000 kilometres of track, 250 locomotives and 52,000 cane bins still transport sugarcane around Australia — some valued mementos are already lost.
Dr Nathalie Piperidis is a ‘cytogeneticist’. What does that mean? She studies sugarcane chromosomes under the microscope, trying to figure out what the complex crop is up to. It’s a long way ...