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Wednesday, 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-rich wastewater.

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Thursday, 08 Dec 2022

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.

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Friday, 07 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 by as early as 2025. 

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Thursday, 01 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 resources from our wastewater.

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Friday, 19 Aug 2022

Using cutting-edge technology, biologist Dr Benjamin Schwessinger from The Australian National University (ANU) is helping to protect the biosecurity of Australia's unique flora and agricultural industry.

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Tuesday, 09 Aug 2022

In a new paper published in Nature Plants, we report on a natural secret that could ultimately be used to help plants thrive while using less water.

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Events

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5 Mar 2025 | 12pm

Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a spatial metabolomics technology used to map the distribution of metabolites in tissue cross sections or on surfaces of whole tissues.

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19 Feb 2025 | 12pm

A fundamental challenge in biology is dealing with high levels of heterogeneity, from genes in genomes, to developing tissues in an organism, to grass and trees in woodland biomes.

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14 Feb 2025 | 3:30pm

Over the last 10 years a number of studies have provided evidence demonstrating that improving photosynthesis can result in improved yield.

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12 Feb 2025 | 12pm

The fungal pathogen, Magnaporthe oryzae, causes disease on many economically important cereal crops such as rice, wheat and barley.

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10 Feb 2025 | 10am

Rust diseases significantly threaten cereals and other crops, causing substantial losses in crop production worldwide and endangering global food security.

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7 Feb 2025 | 3:30pm

Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) is an ex vivo approach used to map the distribution of biomolecules within thin sections of tissue.

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