Australian researchers are shedding light into an innovative molecular approach that, used in conjunction with improving weed management farming practices, could help towards controlling this formidable weed.
Scientists have shed new light on how the network of plant cell gatekeepers works, which they believe is key to develop food crops with bigger yields and greater ability to cope with extreme environments.
Australia is going to be one the most affected agricultural areas by climate extremes, so we are preparing a toolbox of plant innovations to ensure future global food security, as shown in a recently published JExBot Special Issue.
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Centre scientists have improved a mathematical model that describes how carbon moves inside the leaf during photosynthesis.
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.