Two members of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls at the Waite Campus of the University of Adelaide have teamed up with Japanese colleagues to identify a dormancy gene in barley. Professor Geoff Fincher and PhD student Julian Schwerdt are co-authors on a paper published by the group in Nature […]
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Podcast: Making friends with fronds TV series SCOPE features Centre work Pint of Science with Centre CI New animation of an illustrative model of the primary plant cell wall Centre CI named as a Supertar in STEM |
 Sleepy Gene in Barley IdentifiedBiofuel Production from the Stem of Wild SorghumScientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls at the University of Adelaide have discovered that a variety of sorghum growing wild in Australia, Arun, has the potential to yield over 10,000 litres of bioethanol per hectare per year. Researchers such as Dr Caitlin Byrt Postdoctoral Fellow in the University’s School […] Former Centre Director elected as a Fellow of Australian Academy of Science
May 23, 2016
The Centre congratulates former Centre Director Emeritus Professor Geoff Fincher on his induction today as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences. This is a worthy recognition for Geoff’s long distinguished contribution to cereal chemistry, and his research into plant cell walls that culminated with the establishment of the ARC Centre of Excellence in […] New paper: Regulation of Meristem Morphogenesis by Cell Wall Synthases in Arabidopsis
May 20, 2016
ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls‘ scientists have mapped changes in composition of plant cell walls over space and time, providing new insights into the development and growth of all plants. A paper titled Regulation of Meristem Morphogenesis by Cell Wall Synthases in Arabidopsis which is published in the journal Current Biology, characterises […] Centre success in recent ARC Linkage round
May 11, 2016
Prof. Vincent Bulone, Prof. Mike Gidley and A/Prof. Jason Stokes have recently been awarded Linkage Grants for 2016. The three independent projects, worth $1.71 million over 3 years, build on work produced in the CoE. Prof. Bulone’s project continues an existing collaboration with Carlsberg Breweries, and brings in new partners Coopers Brewery and La Trobe […] |
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