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A synthetic biology approach to detect pathogen molecules in crops

Australian agriculture is a key contributor to the economy with the goal to grow the agricultural sector to AUD$100 billion within the next decade. Wheat is the major crop with a collective market value over AUD$6 billion. Fungal crop diseases are one of the major limitations causing yield losses of about 20% despite regular fungicide applications costing over $100 million a year.

This project is open to Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD students

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Projects	Research themes	Degree level
Vocal mimicry and display	Behavioural, evolutionary and physiological ecology	PhD
What are novel mechanisms for regulating transcription, RNA turnover and protein translation	Plant genetics and gene regulation Plant environmental biology and functional ecology	Honours, PhD
Wheat immunity and applied synthetic biology	Host-microbe biology Plant genetics and gene regulation Plant-microbe interactions	Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD