Read all the Centre activities for 2019 including research highlights, media engagement, education activities, publications and more!
Centre scientists have improved a mathematical model that describes how carbon moves inside the leaf during photosynthesis. The new model is better at predicting carbon’s behaviour on any level, including studying photosynthesis and respiration on the global scale.
Research that could transform global rice production by increasing yields from the world’s number one food crop has been boosted by five more years of funding.
Centre researcher Dr Alex Wu, have been awarded the 2019 Functional Plant Biology Best paper award at the Australian Society of Plant Scientists Conference 2019 (ASPS2019)
Recent research into highly productive turbocharged crops such as maize and sorghum, show the secret to their productivity could lie in their sugar sensing responses which regulate photosynthesis inside their leaves.
Centre scientists have put elite wheat varieties through a sort of “Photosynthesis Olympics” to find which varieties have the best performing photosynthesis. This could ultimately help grain growers to get more yield for less inputs in the farm.
An article about climate change adaptation and the importance of photosynthesis research on looking for solutions. Published in the New York Times by Benjamin Ryan.
Read this article in Groundcover by Gio Braidotti about our recent Translational Photosynthesis Conference in Brisbane
Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may lead to an increase in crop production.