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Tuesday, 02 Oct 2018

An international research team has found they can increase corn productivity by targeting the enzyme in charge of capturing CO2 from the atmosphere.

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Tuesday, 11 Sep 2018

Meisha Holloway-Phillips talks about her time working with Graham Farquhar

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Tuesday, 04 Sep 2018

Benjamin Schwessinger talks about research, teaching and equity

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Tuesday, 04 Sep 2018

Scientists at ANU have engineered tiny carbon-capturing engines from blue-green algae into plants, in a breakthrough that promises to help boost the yields of important food crops such as wheat, cowpeas and cassava.

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Monday, 27 Aug 2018

The ANU and CSIRO will set up a new farming innovation centre at ANU to advance research, education and technology in farming and global food production, thanks to more than $1 million in new funding commitments.    

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Thursday, 02 Aug 2018

Simon Williams uses protein biochemistry and structural biology approaches to understand how plant pathogens cause disease and how the plant immune system prevents infection.

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Events

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5 Mar 2025 | 12pm

Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a spatial metabolomics technology used to map the distribution of metabolites in tissue cross sections or on surfaces of whole tissues.

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19 Feb 2025 | 12pm

A fundamental challenge in biology is dealing with high levels of heterogeneity, from genes in genomes, to developing tissues in an organism, to grass and trees in woodland biomes.

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14 Feb 2025 | 3:30pm

Over the last 10 years a number of studies have provided evidence demonstrating that improving photosynthesis can result in improved yield.

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12 Feb 2025 | 12pm

The fungal pathogen, Magnaporthe oryzae, causes disease on many economically important cereal crops such as rice, wheat and barley.

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10 Feb 2025 | 10am

Rust diseases significantly threaten cereals and other crops, causing substantial losses in crop production worldwide and endangering global food security.

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7 Feb 2025 | 3:30pm

Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) is an ex vivo approach used to map the distribution of biomolecules within thin sections of tissue.

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