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News

Wednesday, 20 Mar 2024

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.

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Wednesday, 22 Nov 2023

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

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Tuesday, 19 Sep 2023

Dr. Florence Danila awarded as one of the 2023 ACT's Young Tall Poppies on 19 September 2023 at the Shine Dome.

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ANU Campus
Monday, 07 Aug 2023

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.

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Thursday, 15 Jun 2023

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

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Wednesday, 22 Mar 2023

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.

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Events

Collage of three different stages of a plant's lifecycle, showing close-ups of pollen-covered catkins, bright yellow spherical flowers, and hanging mature seed pods.
15 Apr 2024 | 12:30 - 1:30pm
An illustration of Tinker Bell touching a colorful DNA helix with her wand, standing on a large, vivid red flower.
5 Apr 2024 | 3:30pm

Can you think of a fast and efficient plant gene editing method to produce crops that do not succumb to a changing climate?

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A collage of images showing different plant diseases affecting leaves and crops.
27 Mar 2024 | 12pm

Rust fungi are a major cause of cereal yield losses worldwide requiring frequent fungicide applications in case crop resistance is overcome by new pathogen variants.

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A man with a mustache smiling while holding a small plant in a greenhouse.
6 Mar 2024 | 12pm

Cytosolic Ca2+ signals and changes in pH are universal signaling elements that couple a wide range of stimuli to their characteristic responses in plants. Despite decades of intensive research, it is still poorly understood.

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A whimsical illustration of a walking green clover character with pink flowers on its head, looking at a flying yellow tadpole.
1 Mar 2024 | 3:30pm

Plants rely on their sophisticated innate immune system to protect themselves from surrounding disease-causing pathogens.

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Aerial view of a dense fern field with a small, pink object noticeable in the center.
21 Feb 2024 | 12pm

Since 2000, oil palm cultivation has generated considerable controversy: more than 20 million ha of plantations have been linked with deforestation, burning, a high carbon footprint, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution from the palm oil industry.

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