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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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6 Oct 2021 | 12 - 1pm

The root of Arabidopsis thaliana is an excellent model for studying cell differentiation in plants.

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24 Sep 2021 | 3:30 - 4:30pm

With the onset of climate change we have seen ongoing increases in mean global temperature, including a rise in night temperatures that has outpaced the rate of daytime warming.

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15 Sep 2021 | 11am - 12pm

I began my research career investigating the relationship between photosynthesis and nitrogen in the leaves of wheat, mainly out of curiosity.

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3 Sep 2021 | 3:30 - 4:30pm

RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are critical regulators of gene expression, but have been poorly studied relative to other classes of gene regulators.

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11 Aug 2021 | 12pm

The emergence of widely virulent Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) races over the past two decades has motivated global efforts to identify effective stem rust (Sr) resistance genes.

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30 Jul 2021 | 3:30 - 4:30pm

Plant resistance proteins act as immune receptors to recognise pathogen effectors and activate defense.

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