A synthetic biology approach to detect pathogen molecules in crops |
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A synthetic biology approach to supercharging plant CO2 fixation |
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Abiotic stress signalling, developmental programming and plant adaptation |
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Agrochemical control of stress signalling pathways for enhanced stress tolerance |
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ATLS - the Australian Thermal Load Sensitivity Project. What determines plant sensitivity to heat? |
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Bioinformatics and gene discovery in wheat rust pathogens |
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C4 Rice Project |
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Can seedling screens of energy use efficiency in wheat transfer to yield in the field? |
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Carotenoid derivatives as chloroplast signals |
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Cell specific activation of plant hormones |
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Characterising the Zymospetoria tritici - wheat interaction |
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Characterizing the mRNA-protein “interactome” of plants |
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Climate change and carbon gain in Antarctic mosses |
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Climate Change Impacts on Plants in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park |
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CO2 acquisition by cyanobacteria and plants, & Synthetic Biology strategies for transplanting cyanobacterial CO2 Concentrating mechanism parts in crop plants |
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CO2 diffusion inside leaves |
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Control of meristem differentiation and plant architecture in legumes |
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Coordination of chloroplast signals with cellular secondary messengers during abiotic and biotic stresses |
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Coping with temperature extremes: morphological constraints on leaf function in a warmer, drier climate |
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Decrypting chloroplast signalling networks in C4 photosynthesis at cell type-resolution |
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Delivery of virulence proteins by fungal rust pathogens |
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Detection of fungal pathogens and their associated microbiome |
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Developing molecular tools for functional analysis of microRNA-mediated gene silencing |
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Developing new genetic systems for hybrid breeding in wheat |
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Dissecting the defence responses activated by tomato receptors able to detect Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici infection |
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Drivers of phenotypic evolution in a vulnerable alpine ecosystem |
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Ecophysiology of salinity and temperature tolerance in a changing world |
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Effector delivery by fungal rust pathogens |
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Electron transport and ATP synthesis in chloroplasts |
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Elucidating the role of plasmodesmata in wheat stripe rust fungal infection |
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Energy use and the plant canopy - measuring local respiration trends. |
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Engineering aquaporins |
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Engineering microRNA pathways for broad-spectrum plant disease resistance. |
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Enhancing carotenoid levels in cereals by esterification |
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Environmental effects on photosynthesis of species with the C3-C4 intermediate photosynthetic pathway |
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Examining Rubisco - Rubisco activase interactions. |
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Exploring Australia’s diversity for pathogens of weeds |
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Exploring the combined response of heat and drought on photosynthesis and respiration of C4 plants |
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Exploring the evolutionary protein landscape of Rubisco |
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Expression of modified tobacco and foreign Rubiscos in tobacco chloroplasts |
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Factors impacting gene silencing efficacy in plants |
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Flavonoid functions in nitrogen-fixing symbioses |
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Functional characterisation of the flax rust fungus AvrP and AvrL2 effector proteins |
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Fungal genomics, evolution, and host adaptation |
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Genome wide association mapping |
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Genomics of wild Australian brewing yeasts |
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Honours projects are now available to study a wide range of topics in biosecurity and pathogenesis |
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How do effector proteins from necrotrophic fungi cause disease in wheat |
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How mTERF proteins contribute to fertility restoration in plants? |
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Identification and functional characterisation of flax rust effectors |
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Identification and functional characterisation of the Fusarium oxysporum Avr7 effector gene. |
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Identification of signal transduction and accessory protein requirements for resistance responses mediated by the tomato I gene for Fusarium wilt resistance. |
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Improving biological nitrogen fixation in legumes |
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Improving C4 photosynthesis by genetic manipulation |
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Improving drought tolerance in wheat by selectively inhibiting negative regulators of drought stress signalling |
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Investigating the genetic architecture of thermal acclimation of leaf energy metabolism using GWAS |
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Investigating transcriptional and postranslational regulation of aquaporins |
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Laboratory overview |
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Landscape genomics |
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Linking intracellular communication to whole-plant stress responses |
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Mapping the genetic mechanism of plasmodesmata formation and regulation to improve crops |
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MicroRNA target recognition; the role of the target RNA secondary structure. |
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Novel metabolite discovery and characterisation |
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Optimising energy use efficiency to increase wheat yield |
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Overcoming limitations in engineering the Rubisco small subunits in higher plant chloroplasts. |
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PhD projects are now available to study a wide range of topics in biosecurity and pathogenesis |
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Physiological and molecular regulation of stomatal movement |
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Protein function in plant immunity |
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Reducing uncertainty in the prediction of leaf respiration in a changing world |
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Regulation of chloroplast function via alternative splicing in the nucleus |
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Salinity tolerance along an aridity gradient: linking physiological processes with morphological constraints on leaf function in mangroves |
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Student opportunities in molecular analysis of CO2 acquisition by cyanobacteria |
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Student research projects in CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves |
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Studies on the biochemical regulation of C3 and C4 photosynthesis |
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Studying pathogen proteins that cause disease |
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Synthetic biology to engineer novel disease resistance in cereal crops |
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The directed evolution of RuBisCO |
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The molecular basis for plant susceptibility and immunity to Fusarium wilt disease |
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The role of N-terminal post-translational modifications of the tobacco Rubisco large subunit |
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The role of RNA binding proteins in post-transcriptional gene regulation and plant biology. |
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Tree water use, bushfires, and the implications for urban and rural water supplies |
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Understanding the molecular basis of fungal rust diseases in plants |
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Understanding the role of peptide hormones in determining root architecture |
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Unlocking yield gains with a new pathway targeting plant nitrogen usage |
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Unravelling novel Rubisco structures in algae |
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Use of a tobacco Pathogenesis-related Protein-5 (PR-5) promoter: β glucuronidase (GUS) reporter system to study plant defence activation in response to phytohormones, abiotic stresses and biotic inducers. |
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What are novel mechanisms for regulating transcription, RNA turnover and protein translation |
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Wheat immunity and applied synthetic biology |
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