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Professor Peter Solomon. Image Stuart Hay, ANU

Australian wheat shows resistance to devastating disease

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have shown how Australian wheat crops would cope if a destructive disease that’s yet to hit our shores ever made it into the country.

Accelerating the water space-race

Dr Caitlin Byrt explores strategies for advancing water filtration.
Professor Barry Pogson. Image: Lannon Harley, ANU

Barry Pogson awarded a 2019 ARC Laureate Fellowship

Professor Barry Pogson, from the ANU Research School of Biology, was awarded $2.9 million to create higher-yielding and more resilient 'smart plants' for good and bad seasons.

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PS Seminar Series - Myrtle rust research advances and challenges

12pm 25 Sep 2024
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.

PS Seminar Series

12pm 16 Oct 2024
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PS PhD Exit Seminar

3.30pm 15 Nov 2024
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