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“This Conference aims to connect with people whose common goal is real-world solutions for global food production challenges, including scientists, regulators, growers, agri-businesses, students, policy makers, and other future-focused experts and leaders," says...
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School of Molecular Sciences group leader, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology's Monika Murcha has been awarded the esteemed Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) Jan Anderson Award for 2019.
In its second year, the Jan...
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You’ve probably heard how Virtual Reality (VR) is going to change everything: the way we work, the way we live, the way we play. Still, for every truly transformative technology, there are landfills of hoverboards, 3D televisions, Segways, and MiniDiscs – the...
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Vicilin is one of several very abundant seed proteins. The researchers from The University of Western Australia's School of Molecular Sciences and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology showed how several hundred million years ago, some...
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Over the past 18 months, Professor Atkin has worked to bring ANU and AgriTech companies closer together to foster industry collaboration in the area of crop sustainability as a result of a changing...
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Virtual Plant Cell (VPC) is being trialled with school students at Trinity College, taking the cutting-edge virtual reality technology into the classroom and providing a fun, interactive educational experience for them.
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The findings, just published in The Plant Journal, could lead to new approaches to optimising plant growth and productivity – from field-based farming to intensive horticulture...
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The Congress is an important, triennial meeting supported by IPMB and the American Society of Plant Biologists and is expected to attract over 1,200 of the world’s leading plant molecular biologists and agricultural corporations.
The successful...
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The research focused on a marine organism, a creature called amphioxus (also known as “the lancelet”), to explore some of the steps that took place as animals evolved from invertebrates (animals without a backbone) to more complex back-boned vertebrates, including...
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Story originally published by ANU Newsroom
Dr Derek Collinge has redefined his position as Laboratory Manager for the Australian Research Council...
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The showcase, hosted in the state-of-the-art VR facility of partner school Trinity College, aimed to highlight the pioneering work being done for VR education to guests from government, industry and the education sector.
In a special address from the...
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Field workers and researchers will compile data on crop varieties, their growth, and how they are impacted by weather conditions, soil varieties and fertilisers. The WA data along with national data will be made broadly available to farmers through the...
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The discovery, published in New Phytologist, could be used to produce frost-resistant crops, which would save the agricultural industry millions of dollars every...
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Dr Caitlin Byrt, at the University of Adelaide has received Future Fellowship funding to decipher how plants control water and salt co-transport.
Her project aims to increase understanding of how plant cells regulate solute...
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Dr Caitlin Byrt, from the University of Adelaide, was announced as a finalist for the Macquarie University Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher, and Professor Barry Pogson, from the Australian National University, is a finalist for the University...
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Virtual Plant Cell: Classroom VPC is now being trialled with school students at Trinity College, taking the cutting-edge virtual reality technology into the classroom and providing a fun, interactive educational experience for them.
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Caitlin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the University of Adelaide’s School of Agriculture, Food and Wine and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the Waite Research Precinct.
Her expertise is in the area of plant biology,...
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The April workshop, held in Adelaide, aimed to develop an energy budget for the different mechanisms of salinity tolerance in crop plants. Such a budget will serve as a guide to the most cost-effective breeding strategies to increase salt tolerance and yield of...
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This ground-breaking activity will see educational virtual reality (VR) being used to teach high school science.
Classroom VPC will be run on high-end VR headsets, called Oculus Rifts, allowing a whole class of students to explore the microscopic...
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