Talking Plant Science

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series. Bruce Walsh is a population and quantitative geneticist with very diverse interests in plant and animal breeding, evolutionary biology, and statistical methods.  He obtained a BS in Mathematical Population Biology from UC Davis, and

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series presented by Dr David Kainer. Digging deeper into the GWAS signal with a little machine learning along the way Genome Wide Association Studies, or GWAS, have become a standard tool for the discovery of

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series presented by Professor Rana Munns. Plant capacities to adapt to abiotic stresses Climate change and the challenge of feeding an increasing world population pose two existential threats. Climate change causes increased global temperatures that

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series presented by Professor N. Michele Holbrook. Hydromechanical forces in transpiring leaves: how the reversible collapse of minor vein xylem conduits protects against cavitation Vascular plants transport water in a metastable state putting their lifeline

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series presented by Dr John Passioura. Translational Research in Agriculture: How effectively does it work? ‘Translational research’ became an increasingly common term when it was realised that much agriculturally inspired basic research failed to contribute

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series presented by Dr Alex Wu. Crop modelling for informing leaf photosynthesis and crop yield improvement An increasing global food demand begs new strategy for crop yield improvement. Leaf CO2 assimilation is an important driver

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series presented by Associate Professor Jenny Mortimer. Redesigning plants to support long-term Space exploration and for on Earth sustainability Humans are planning to explore Space further than ever before, with a return to the lunar

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series presented by Associate Professor Daniela Bustos-Korts. From trait dynamics to GxE for the target trait: Utilizing Stay Green and Multiple Physiological Traits for Enhanced Wheat Adaptation to Contrasting Drought Conditions Understanding and predicting genotype

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series presented by Associate Professor Vanessa Adams. The good, the bad and the ugly: the dynamics of plant species retention in the landscape Successful conservation of plants depends upon an understanding of the biogeography of