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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 portrait of a young man with curly hair, smiling gently, wearing a dark polo shirt against a white background.
28 Jul 2021 | 12pm

As the intermediary between DNA and proteins, RNA has a major regulatory role in gene expression.

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Microscopic view of fabric fibers showing fine details and textures, accentuated by a gentle blue hue.
23 Jul 2021 | 3:30 - 4:30pm

The rhizobium-legume symbiosis that occurs within root nodules provides a crucial way for legumes to acquire nitrogen under nitrogen limited conditions.

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Portrait of a young man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt, smiling at the camera.
14 Jul 2021 | 12pm

Intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) is an important trait that influences crop productivity.

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A man smiling in a greenhouse with tall plants in the background.
7 Jul 2021 | 12pm

In a screen for root mutants of wheat we targeted long hairs as a desirable trait to improve the efficiency of phosphate uptake from soil.

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Portrait of a smiling man with glasses wearing a black shirt.
16 Jun 2021 | 12pm

Stress dependent usage of specific mRNAs is a common process in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression.

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A smiling young man wearing glasses and a red hoodie, standing indoors with green plants in the background.
2 Jun 2021 | 2:30pm

Plant energy organelles such as chloroplasts are central to the evolution and function of plants; indeed it can be argued that chloroplasts are the raison d’ȇtre for plants.

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