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Scientists to harvest valuable resources from wastewater
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.
Fungi fighter named ACT’s emerging scientist
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.
15 years of experiments have overturned a major assumption about how thirsty plants actually are
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.Pages
PS Seminar Series
PS Seminar Series: Ancient origin of envelope-containing retrotransposons in metazoan
Event recordings
5 February 2021
Yiheng Hu, PhD Student, Rathjen Group, PS, RSB
Devastating fungal diseases threaten global food security and plant and animal populations, highlighting the need for rapid and accurate identification of fungal pathogens.
24 June 2020
Dr Megan Outram, Post Doc, Williams Group, RSB
Plant pathogens cause disease through secreted effector proteins, which act to modulate host physiology and promote infection. Often, effector proteins lack sequence identity to...
10 June 2020
Dr Florian Busch, Post Doc, Farquhar group, ANU
Photorespiratory metabolism is essential for plants to maintain functional photosynthesis in an oxygen-containing environment. Because the oxygenation reaction of Rubisco is...
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