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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

A young man with glasses wearing a white lab coat smiling in a laboratory setting.
25 Feb 2022 | 3:30pm

FERONIA (FER) is a plant receptor kinase of many functions, binding to pectin in the cell wall and mediating an astoundingly broad range of plant activities.

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Portraits of a man in a blue shirt and a woman in a black top; the man's photo is in color, and the woman's is in black and white.
11 Feb 2022 | 3:30pm

Plant phenotyping methodologies have come a long way from manual scoring and destructive characterization to high-throughput imaging techniques.

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An illustration displaying scientific diagrams related to plant biology that includes a mechanical setup measuring plant response, multiple graph charts, and a close-up cross-section of plant cells.
10 Dec 2021 | 3:30 - 4:30pm

Most water fluxes on the land occur through plants via transpiration, and agriculture uses 70% of the water managed by humans.

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19 Nov 2021 | 12 - 1pm

Research interests - Working on developing new methods to combine information from corn, sorghum, and related orphan crops and wild species to identify genetic changes that alter crop traits important to farmers and food traits important to consumers.

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17 Nov 2021 | 12 - 1pm

The wheat necrotrophic fungal pathogen, Parastagonospora nodorum, secretes effector proteins to manipulate host immunity and promote successful infection.

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10 Nov 2021 | 12 - 1pm

The slow kinetics and poor substrate specificity of the key photosynthetic CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco have prompted the repeated evolution of Rubisco containing compartments known as pyrenoids in diverse algal lineages and carboxysomes in prokaryotes.

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