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5 Feb 2021
Australian agriculture plays a key role towards providing food for the planet but it is also expected to be one of the world's most impacted areas from...
3 Feb 2021
Increasing food production is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. The Australian Academy of Science has produced a video featuring researchers...
3 Dec 2019
Research that could transform global rice production by increasing yields from the world’s number one food crop has been boosted by five more years of funding.
14 May 2019
Professor Owen Atkin and Professor Robert Furbank from RSB analyse the ongoing issues around food security and the policy direction needed to ensure Australia...
29 Jan 2019
Human error, not human biology, largely accounts for the apparent decline of mortality among the very old, according to a new report by Saul Newman of the...
2 Oct 2018
An international research team has found they can increase corn productivity by targeting the enzyme in charge of capturing CO2 from the atmosphere.
16 Jan 2018
Research background I completed my BSc (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry) at ANU and from this degree I was particularly interested in plant science and...
17 Oct 2016
Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) is helping to develop food crops with bigger yields and greater ability to cope with drought compared...
10 May 2016
Thirty seven years after finishing his honours degree at the University of Wollongong, Professor Robert Furbank has been awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree (...
21 Apr 2016
2016 marks 50 years since Hal Hatch and Roger Slack discovered the C4 photosynthesis pathway, while working in sugarcane. The C4 Photosynthesis Conference 2016...
12 Nov 2015
A team of Australian researchers will contribute to a G20 nations plan to strengthen future, global food security by making more energy efficient wheat....