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News

Monday, 16 Sep 2019

Dr Caitlin Byrt explores strategies for advancing water filtration.

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Professor Barry Pogson. Image: Lannon Harley, ANU
Thursday, 12 Sep 2019

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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Tuesday, 25 Jun 2019

Distinguished Professor Graham Farquhar has been honoured with a tapestry representing his life's work, including his Kyoto Prize, unveiled at University House.

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Tuesday, 11 Jun 2019

Professor Geoff McFadden has been awarded the Ralph Slatyer Medal for research in understanding the malaria parasite.

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Monday, 08 Apr 2019

Plant biologist and Head of the Plant Sciences Division at the ANU Research School of Biology, Professor Owen Atkin, has been named the 2019 Vice-Chancellor's Entrepreneurial Fellow for his work around entrepreneurial agri-technology.

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Thursday, 07 Mar 2019

To create a future you can look forward to we need to upgrade our crop plant resources. Upgrading crops to improve productivity and adapt to environmental stresses, such as extreme climatic conditions, is key to our future food security and quality of life.

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Events

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25 Feb 2022 | 3:30pm

FERONIA (FER) is a plant receptor kinase of many functions, binding to pectin in the cell wall and mediating an astoundingly broad range of plant activities.

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11 Feb 2022 | 3:30pm

Plant phenotyping methodologies have come a long way from manual scoring and destructive characterization to high-throughput imaging techniques.

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An illustration displaying scientific diagrams related to plant biology that includes a mechanical setup measuring plant response, multiple graph charts, and a close-up cross-section of plant cells.
10 Dec 2021 | 3:30 - 4:30pm

Most water fluxes on the land occur through plants via transpiration, and agriculture uses 70% of the water managed by humans.

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19 Nov 2021 | 12 - 1pm

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 crop traits important to farmers and food traits important to consumers.

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17 Nov 2021 | 12 - 1pm

The wheat necrotrophic fungal pathogen, Parastagonospora nodorum, secretes effector proteins to manipulate host immunity and promote successful infection.

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10 Nov 2021 | 12 - 1pm

The slow kinetics and poor substrate specificity of the key photosynthetic CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco have prompted the repeated evolution of Rubisco containing compartments known as pyrenoids in diverse algal lineages and carboxysomes in prokaryotes.

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