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News

Tuesday, 10 Jul 2018

A passion for the business side of science has helped John Rivers land his dream job, just weeks after finishing his PhD.

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Katie Purdey and members of the Farquhar research group at ANU.
Wednesday, 04 Jul 2018

Katie Purdy joined the Farquhar group over summer 2017/2018, supervised by Dr Florian Busch.

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Monday, 02 Jul 2018

Unusual portraits of RSB members Marilyn Ball and Jack Egerton were part of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, entitled 'So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian History'. The portraits are part of a group of six sculptures made of bones, skins, furs, fabrics and other natural materials.

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Thursday, 24 May 2018

Professor Rana Munns, an eminent Australian plant scientist who works on increased crop production on dry or saline soils has been awarded the Ralph Slatyer Medal for outstanding biological research for 2018.

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Monday, 21 May 2018

Researchers have a new understanding of the genetic makeup of a fungus that causes the disease Wheat Stripe Rust, one of the most destructive wheat diseases globally costing $1 billion annually.

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Thursday, 26 Apr 2018

Researchers from ANU have developed a seed-collection strategy to help make trees or even food crops more resilient to future climate change.

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Events

12 Oct 2022 | 12pm

Phi thickenings are peculiar secondary cell wall thickenings that form reinforcing bands around the radial walls of cortical cells in plant roots, a location where only a primary cell wall would normally be found.

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7 Oct 2022 | 3:30pm

Global crop yields per hectare have plateaued in recent years while consumption and population continue to grow.

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30 Sep 2022 | 2pm

This seminar begins with the three and a half fold increase in the farm yield of irrigated wheat from 1960 to 2019 in NW Mexico, the homebase of the CIMMYT wheat breeding program

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28 Sep 2022 | 12pm

The ability to rapidly adapt to changing environments, especially to artificial environments created by industrial agriculture and modern medicine, is crucial for the success of pathogens infecting plants and animals.

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21 Sep 2022 | 12pm

‘Translational research’ became an increasingly common term when it was realised that much agriculturally inspired basic research failed to contribute to the improvement of crops.

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A smiling man wearing glasses and a blue striped shirt stands in front of a red brick wall with the word "BOTANY" in metal letters.
31 Aug 2022 | 3:30pm

The steady-state mRNA abundance is an outcome of transcript synthesis counter-balanced by turnover.

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