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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

Collage of three different stages of a plant's lifecycle, showing close-ups of pollen-covered catkins, bright yellow spherical flowers, and hanging mature seed pods.
15 Apr 2024 | 12:30 - 1:30pm
An illustration of Tinker Bell touching a colorful DNA helix with her wand, standing on a large, vivid red flower.
5 Apr 2024 | 3:30pm

Can you think of a fast and efficient plant gene editing method to produce crops that do not succumb to a changing climate?

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A collage of images showing different plant diseases affecting leaves and crops.
27 Mar 2024 | 12pm

Rust fungi are a major cause of cereal yield losses worldwide requiring frequent fungicide applications in case crop resistance is overcome by new pathogen variants.

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A man with a mustache smiling while holding a small plant in a greenhouse.
6 Mar 2024 | 12pm

Cytosolic Ca2+ signals and changes in pH are universal signaling elements that couple a wide range of stimuli to their characteristic responses in plants. Despite decades of intensive research, it is still poorly understood.

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A whimsical illustration of a walking green clover character with pink flowers on its head, looking at a flying yellow tadpole.
1 Mar 2024 | 3:30pm

Plants rely on their sophisticated innate immune system to protect themselves from surrounding disease-causing pathogens.

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Aerial view of a dense fern field with a small, pink object noticeable in the center.
21 Feb 2024 | 12pm

Since 2000, oil palm cultivation has generated considerable controversy: more than 20 million ha of plantations have been linked with deforestation, burning, a high carbon footprint, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution from the palm oil industry.

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