15 Jun 2023

Professor Yong-Ling Ruan and his colleagues have made a breakthrough that could yield tastier and healthier fruit.

13 Dec 2022

Dr Tobias Hayashi studied a delicate little native orchid with a cool and clever adaptation to attract pollinators.

28 Mar 2022

Death cap mushrooms don’t actually want to kill us. In fact, mushrooms don’t care about us at all. 

14 Feb 2022

Making good food choices is necessary both for ourselves and for the planet, says plant scientist Professor Justin Borevitz.

22 Jul 2021

A new research centre based at ANU will train the next generation of scientists to develop more resilient crops and significantly grow Australia's...

8 Apr 2021

We met Professor Nicotra in the Snowy Mountains and asked what she learned from 2020.

23 Aug 2020

Research into the self-destruction of cells in humans and plants could lead to treatments for brain diseases and the development of disease-resistant plants.

24 May 2020

Researchers have a new understanding of the genetic makeup of a fungus that causes the disease Wheat Stripe Rust, one of the most destructive wheat diseases...

9 Nov 2019

Some clever detective work by an international team of scientists has uncovered how a deadly fungus - a stem rust called Ug99 - came about through some unusual...

19 Sep 2019

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have shown how Australian wheat crops would cope if a destructive disease that’s yet to hit our shores...

12 Sep 2019

Professor Barry Pogson, from the ANU Research School of Biology, was awarded $2.9 million to create higher-yielding and more resilient 'smart plants...

8 Apr 2019

Plant biologist and Head of the Plant Sciences Division at the ANU Research School of Biology, Professor Owen Atkin, has been named the 2019 Vice-Chancellor...