Centre Director awarded Thomas Burr Osborne Medal

March 22, 2013
Filed under: News — Emma Drew @ 4:37 am

Centre Director, Professor Geoff Fincher, has been awarded the prestigious Thomas Burr Osborne Medal that recognises distinguished contributions in cereal chemistry. The international award will be presented by the American Association of Cereal Chemists (AACC) International at the annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico in September

Conference: Australian-New Zealand Plant Cell Walls

March 17, 2013
Filed under: Events,News — Emma Drew @ 4:25 am

By Dr Helen Collins: The 1st New Zealand and Australian Plant Cell Wall meeting was hosted by Plant and Food Research in Auckland. Delegates from around Australia and New Zealand gathered to learn more about plant cell wall research undertaken in both countries. Eighteen people from all three nodes of the ARC CoE in Plant […]

Deputy Director travels to Brazil

March 13, 2013
Filed under: News — Emma Drew @ 4:23 am

Deputy Director and Chief Investigator, Professor Tony Bacic, travelled to Brazil to extend an existing collaboration with the EMBRAPA (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation) laboratories of Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia Parque Estação Biológica – PqEB in Brasilia. Tony was also invited by the coordinators of the CeProBIO/SUNLIBB Consortium (Professors Simon McQueen Mason (SUNLIBB) and Igor Polikarpov […]

New paper: How salt affects root growth in barley

March 4, 2013
Filed under: New Publications,News — Emma Drew @ 4:22 am

Read an article by Deputy Director and Chief Investigator, Professor Tony Bacic, and our collaborators at ACPFG: Genetic variation in the root growth response of barley genotypes to salinity stress