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$3 million boost to protect our biodiversity
Threatened Australian animal and plant species have been given a major lifeline, thanks to new funding for a new database that contains 100-years of flora and fauna DNA.New study may help improve brain health and food security
Research into the self-destruction of cells in humans and plants could lead to treatments for brain diseases and the development of disease-resistant plants.Using satellites to benefit agriculture
Professor Owen Atkin is a Group Leader at RSB Plant Sciences, the Vice Chancellor's Entrepreneurial Professor at ANU, and the Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Agri-Technology (CEAT) - a collaboration between ANU and CSIRO, with investment from the ACT Government.Pages
PS PhD Exit Seminar: Isolation and functional characterisation of a flax rust gene able to inhibit resistance responses in flax to specific flax rust effectors
10am 10 Feb 2025
Rust diseases significantly threaten cereals and other crops, causing substantial losses in crop production worldwide and endangering global food security.
PS Seminar Series: Exploiting integrated domains within Tandem Kinase Proteins for plant resistance engineering
12pm 12 Feb 2025
The fungal pathogen, Magnaporthe oryzae, causes disease on many economically important cereal crops such as rice, wheat and barley.
PS Seminar Series: Engineering photosynthetic carbon fixation for crop improvement
3.30pm 14 Feb 2025
Over the last 10 years a number of studies have provided evidence demonstrating that improving photosynthesis can result in improved yield.