Read all the Centre activities for 2020 including research highlights, media engagement, education activities, publications and more!
Scientists studying how leaves gain and lose water during the process of photosynthesis, have developed a more precise theory that could help future research on crop resilience to drought and heat waves.
Congratulations to our Deputy Director who has been awarded the Inaugural Suzanne Cory Medal by the Australian Academy of Science for her outstanding contributions to science.
An impressive body of evidence published this week reveals the answer to a mystery that has puzzled plant scientists for more than 30 years
A team of scientists have measured the relative importance of the different obstacles that carbon dioxide (CO2) encounters in its voyage from the atmosphere to the interior of plant cells, where it is converted into sugars.
Our Centre has launched a video about the impact of its work on food security, produced in collaboration with the Australian Academy of Science.
In a recent publication, scientists found that measuring the colour of light reflected from leaves contains a temperature signal, a discovery that will accelerate dramatically the process of finding useful crop traits.
Professor John Evans and Professor Graham Farquhar have been listed as Highly Cited Researchers by the Web of Science
An international long-term research collaboration aimed at creating high yielding and water use efficient rice varieties, has successfully installed part of the photosynthetic machinery from maize into rice.