ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture PhD candidate Tori Millsteed is one of an elite group named as a 2023 Westpac Future Leader for her research on boosting crop yields through genetics. The West Australian-born biochemist and environmentalist said she felt very fortunate to be awarded the scholarship, which allowed her to follow her passion
The Centre has hit the ground running in 2023 with plenty of research activity, collaborations, travel, and events underway. I have been particularly enjoying seeing all the action happening in the fields of the Hermitage Research Facility by Chief Investigator David Jordan‘s team. The sorghum trials are coming along and we are thankfully in a very different place to the flood events that were occurring this
After Chairing the Centre’s Advisory Committee (CAC) over the past couple of years it is timely for me to reflect on some of our meeting outcomes. Committee members were invited onto the CAC because of their experience in government, industry, community and indigenous affairs, as well as research and academic leadership. Importantly, we also have welcomed a Centre Early Career Researcher (ECR)
As of today, the Centre for Plant Success has been up and running for two years! It feels like just yesterday that I received the confirmation that the Centre had been funded, but when I look at all we have achieved since then I can see that we are well on our way to some truly exciting advancements in plant
As a tail-end contributor, it’s tempting to act on the advice of Nobel Prize winner André Gide (pronounced Geed, not G’day): “Everything that needs to be said has already been said, but since no one was listening, everything must be said again”. Although probably good counsel, you’ll be happy to read that I’ll try not to do this. With the end of
Centre researchers in the Law Team at The University of Queensland have conducted a systematic appraisal of the problems facing researchers within the Centre and in the plant sciences at large. In 2022 the team talked to plant scientists, staff at herbaria, gene banks and botanical gardens to better understand some of the legal issues they face. Based on the
Our work in the Law Team of the Centre started with a systematic appraisal of the problems facing researchers in the plant sciences at large and in the Centre. Over the year, we’ve talked to plant scientists, staff at herbaria, gene banks and botanical gardens to better understand some of the legal issues. Based on the conversations we’ve had so far,
Climate change is predicted to lead to a net decrease in food production, globally. Tropical zones will move from optimal growing conditions into extreme and prolonged summer temperatures. This will cause drops in productivity in areas where the bulk of malnourished people live. Growing seasons will likely get longer in temperate zones as climate warms but any gains will likely
“The role of the supervisor is to identify potential pitfalls in the research plan and gently guide the student towards them” – John Giffin (Honours supervisor 1997) I am one of the Chief Investigators at the University of Tasmania Node. I’ve been working at the intersection of mathematics and evolutionary biology for nearly 25 years – ever since going to
Hi! I’m the sole Chief Investigator at the Western Sydney University (WSU) Node of the Centre – but I am far from alone! Our Node draws together Associate Investigators from my current workplace at WSU’s Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE) (Rachael Gallagher, Brendan Choat, Jonathan Plett), and from my former place of work, Macquarie University (Brian Atwell, Hendrik Poorter, Michelle Leishman, Andrea Westerband, Yuki Tsujii, Shubham
