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News

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

An elderly man with a joyful expression wearing a backpack stands in a forest near a stream.
5 Jun 2024 | 12pm

Plants have co-evolved with the atmosphere and the climate and play essential roles in the global hydrological and carbon cycles.

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A young woman smiling in a field of lavender.
29 May 2024 | 12pm

Grass genomes harbour a whole MADS-box gene blueprint of the ABCED model, which is the molecular basis of floral organ identity in angiosperm flowers.

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A person in cycling gear smiling next to a "Nederland" sign with a blue background and yellow stars.
24 Apr 2024 | 12 - 1pm

The impacts of climate change on plants are hard to quantify, leading to uncertainties in predicting future gross primary productivity and carbon budgets of (agro)ecosystems.

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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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