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Scientists use plants to seed solutions for recycling valuable metals and minerals
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.
How to grow plants on the moon
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.
ANU to support Aussie start-up in growing plants on the moon
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.Pages
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PS Seminar Series: Ancient origin of envelope-containing retrotransposons in metazoan
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10 June 2022
Prof Yong-Ling Ruan - Honorary Group Leader, Division of Plant Sciences, The Australian National University
Source-to-sink allocation of, and sink-to-sink competition for, photoassimilates, mainly in the form of sucrose, play a key role in determining energy and resource distribution in...
25 May 2022
A/Prof Mathew G. Lewsey - Co-Deputy Director, ARC Research Hub for Medicinal Agriculture, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia
Seeds provide 70% of global food resources, being the most valuable output from plant production. They also play a critical role in agriculture because the lifecycle of most crops...
25 March 2022
Professor Andrew Borrell, Crop Physiologist, The University of Queensland
Plants are sessile organisms and are therefore unable to seek out environmental conditions optimal for their growth and development.
19 November 2021
Professor James Schnable, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Research interests - Working on developing new methods to combine information from corn, sorghum, and related orphan crops and wild species to identify genetic changes that alter...
17 November 2021
Dr Bayantes Dagvadorj, Postdoctoral Researcher, Solomon Group, RSB, ANU
The wheat necrotrophic fungal pathogen, Parastagonospora nodorum, secretes effector proteins to manipulate host immunity and promote successful infection.
29 October 2021
Haochen Wei, PhD Student, Solomon Group, RSB, ANU
Bipolaris sorokiniana is a hemibiotrophic pathogen causing spot blotch (SB) and common root rot (CRR) in both wheat and barley, and is causal to significant yield and economic...
20 October 2021
Professor Julian Hibberd, Professor, University of Cambridge
Prior to the discovery of C4 photosynthesis by Hal Hatch and Roger Slack in 1966 there were clues that some plants partitioned photosynthesis between specific leaf cell types.
13 October 2021
Professor Susanne von Caemmerer, Emeritus Professor, RSB, ANU
Mathematical models of leaf photosynthesis provide a mechanistic base for predicting and assessing changes in photosynthetic CO2 fixation in different environments and provide a...
24 September 2021
Bradley Posch, PhD Student, Atkin Group, RSB, ANU
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.
12 May 2021
Dr Maria Ermakova, Post Doc, Furbank and von Caemmerer Group, RSB, ANU
Photosynthetic improvement has become a major focus for researchers seeking to increase yields of crop plants.
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