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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...
9 Oct 2017
(29 April 1931 – 19 June 2017) Ian was born in Ilford, Essex, England, the son of a school master. He was sent to the country during the bombing of London and...
13 Jul 2017
Due to a continued growth in commitments, Justin Borevitz has stepped aside from the formal directorship of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) ANU...
16 May 2017
ANU has a long history of pioneering research into alpine trees. The work Professor Ralph Slatyer undertook in the 1970's was used to show that the tree...
24 Apr 2017
Perched 30m above the Daintree Rainforest, Australia’s latest piece of high-tech environmental surveillance kit is keeping watch. 24 hours a day the...
16 Jan 2017
2016 Functional Ecology undergraduate field trip, made by RSB's own Pip Beale.
24 Mar 2016
Plants from all over the globe respond to temperature changes in remarkably similar ways, researchers have found. The finding has important implications for...
25 Feb 2016
Nothing better than giving a good lecture to a large first year cohort - a highlight of any day. Group research focus The major foci of my group's research are...
19 Feb 2016
The Loyd T Evans Growth Facility (PGF), named after John Evan's father, was officially opened on the Philippine campus of...
24 Nov 2015
Vulnerability to internal plumbing failure puts the tallest trees in rainforests at increased risk of death during drought, a study in the Amazon forests in...
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....