22 Nov 2023

The remarkable ability of mangrove forests to remember recent droughts could leave them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

25 Jan 2023

Scientists from ANU are drawing inspiration from plants to develop new techniques to separate and extract valuable minerals, metals and nutrients from resource...

7 Oct 2022

ANU will lend its unique expertise in plant biology to an ambitious mission led by Australian space start-up Lunaria One that aims to grow plants on the moon...

1 Sep 2022

A team of researchers from the ANU Research School of Biology and CSIRO has been awarded more than $1 million to develop technology that harvests valuable...

26 Jul 2022

How do you tell if your plants need water? Recently, I asked this question of a group of about 40 biologists at the Australian National University.

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.

16 Mar 2021

A new study shows that long-term drought in biodiverse Amazonian tropical rainforest can fundamentally change the soil, increasing the abundance of an unusual...

15 Aug 2020

Professor Owen Atkin is a Group Leader at RSB Plant Sciences, the Vice Chancellor's Entrepreneurial Professor at ANU, and the Director of the Centre for...

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...