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Dr. Florence Danila of the Australian National University wins Thomas Davies 2024 grant from the Australian Academy of Science to support her work on plasmodesmata.
The remarkable ability of mangrove forests to remember recent droughts could leave them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Dr. Florence Danila awarded as one of the 2023 ACT's Young Tall Poppies on 19 September 2023 at the Shine Dome.
ANU has been awarded a total of almost $10m in funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to bolster the nation's capabilities in nuclear and radiation science, and plant biosecurity.
Professor Yong-Ling Ruan and his colleagues have made a breakthrough that could yield tastier and healthier fruit.
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.
Events
Austropuccinia psidii is the fungal pathogen that causes myrtle rust on Myrtaceae hosts. First described on South American guava in 1884, the disease was noted on introduced eucalypt plantations in Brazil in 1912 before spreading globally.
The genebank of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) holds the 2nd largest collection of Barley (Hordeum) species, storing over thirty-two thousand accessions.
Seed germination is a most critical phase in a plant life cycle, particularly under abiotic stress conditions, such as drought or salinity, to which it is especially vulnerable, with severe consequences on productivity
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have recently emerged as prominent elements of the regulatory transactions of eukaryotic genomes.
Plant carbon fixation, a vital process for capturing energy, profoundly influences various aspects of our lives, including food, clothing fibers, medicines, building materials, and even the production of human therapeutics.