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Dr Kai Chan, Group Leader and ARC Decra Fellow awarded 2023 Westpac Research Fellowship
As the urgency for climate solutions increases globally, Westpac Scholars Trust supports successful scholars to research to solve some of Australia’s greatest environmental challenges.
Scientists use plants to seed solutions for recycling valuable metals and minerals
Scientists from ANU are drawing inspiration from plants to develop new techniques to separate and extract valuable minerals, metals and nutrients from resource-rich wastewater.
How to grow plants on the moon
Not content with the challenging conditions for crop production here on Earth, Associate Professor Caitlin Byrt is lending her expertise to an ambitious space mission to grow plants on the moon.Pages
PS PhD Exit Seminar - Tender freaks: Exploring resilience to global change among fringe-dwelling forest species.
PS Seminar Series: A hard day's night; determining a role for stomatal conductance in nocturnal heat tolerance
PS Seminar Series: Advances in plant and microbial science: approaches to address global food and climate security
Event recordings
4 November 2022
Tom Schreiber, Post-doctoral Fellow, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) are Type-III-effector proteins mainly found in phytopathogenic Xanthomonas species.
2 November 2022
Jodi Young, ANU Honorary Senior Lecturer
Oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface, play a vital role in global climate and are home to varied and productive ecosystems.
21 October 2022
Ana Laura Furlan, Postdoc, CONCIET and National University of Rio Cuarto (Córdoba, Argentina)
The research line is devoted to the study of the interaction between peanuts and beneficial microorganisms.
12 October 2022
Assoc Professor David Collings, The University of Newcastle
Phi thickenings are peculiar secondary cell wall thickenings that form reinforcing bands around the radial walls of cortical cells in plant roots, a location where only a primary...
7 October 2022
Andres Garcia, PhD candidate, Atkin Group - Plant respiration in a changing world
Global crop yields per hectare have plateaued in recent years while consumption and population continue to grow.
28 September 2022
Mareike Moeller, Postdoc, Oregon State University, USA
The ability to rapidly adapt to changing environments, especially to artificial environments created by industrial agriculture and modern medicine, is crucial for the success of...
21 September 2022
John Passioura, Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University
‘Translational research’ became an increasingly common term when it was realised that much agriculturally inspired basic research failed to contribute to the improvement of crops.
26 August 2022
Edward E. Farmer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Slow wave potentials propagate from sites of damage to distal leaves in wounded plants.
12 August 2022
Dr James P B Lloyd, University of Western Australia's School of Molecular Sciences and ARC CoE in Plant Energy Biology
Plant biotechnology predominantly relies on a restricted set of genetic parts with limited capability to customize spatiotemporal and conditional expression patterns.
22 July 2022
Julie Leroux - PS PhD Candidate, Pogson Group
As sessile organisms, plants have evolved a multitude of mechanisms to acclimate to their environment enabling the plant to optimise development and reproduction, and fight off or...
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