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A passion for the business side of science has helped John Rivers land his dream job, just weeks after finishing his PhD.
Katie Purdy joined the Farquhar group over summer 2017/2018, supervised by Dr Florian Busch.
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.
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.
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.
Researchers from ANU have developed a seed-collection strategy to help make trees or even food crops more resilient to future climate change.
Events
Accelerated gene evolution is a hallmark of pathogen adaptation and is crucial to enable host-range expansions and host-jumps
The emergence and implementation of Cas endonuclease technology has undoubtedly taken plant research and biotechnology to a higher level.
Irrespective of species, plant roots have remarkably similar patterning, and thus, many cell types are considered functionally homologous across species.
PS Webinar Series: Technological convergence for Planetary Health - Precision Landscape Regeneration
Agriculture and ecosystems are tipping toward collapse due to land use and climate extremes. Irreversible feedbacks in the land system can lock in food insecurity, biodiversity loss and a hot house world.
In order to sustain and improve cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) production in future climates with increasingly hot mean annual temperatures and more frequent and extreme heatwaves, developing climate-adapted cotton cultivars is required.
Many photosynthetic organisms employ a CO2 concentrating mechanism (CCM) to increase the rate of CO2 fixation via the Calvin cycle. CCMs catalyze ≈50% of global photosynthesis, yet it remains unclear which genes and proteins are necessary for a CCM to function.