Professor Lynne Selwood

Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne

Sciences & Technology

The science that stops possums eating your garden

When possums ate her garden, Professor Lynne Selwood fought back and invented a spray that protects plants from Australia’s hungry possums

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