Our former Centre Director, Emeritus Professor Geoff Fincher, and a team of international researchers have discovered the genes in barley that led to the start of human agriculture, published in the journal Cell today. “Evolution of the seed dispersal system in barley” discusses how the group of researchers, led by Professor Takao Komatsuda of the National Institute of Agrobiological […]
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Centre’s Research Showcase #pcw2018 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 |
 The Start of Cropping in GrainsRunner up in AusSMC image competition
July 29, 2015
Recently, Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC),established the Scimex Multimedia Hub of images, graphics, footage and audio to help make sciences stories more intersting. To celebrate the launch of this hub, AusSMC ran an image competition for its supporters. An image of Arabidopsis stigma stained with Direct Yellow by Dr Matthew Tucker from the Adelaide node of […] Tall Poppy for passionate plant scientist
July 28, 2015
South Australian plant scientist Dr Caitlin Byrt has been named a 2015 South Australian Tall Poppy. The prestigious Young Tall Poppy Science Award recognises Dr Byrt’s work at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls at the University of Adelaide, […] Fishy sunscreenCentre Director, Professor Vincent Bulone is leading research into an all new natural sunscreen made from fish slime, algae and crustacean shells, as reported in the American Chemical Society’s Applied Materials & Interfaces Journal. The paper, titled “Exploiting Mycosporines as Natural Molecular Sunscreens for the Fabrication of UV-Absorbing Green Materials”, discusses how the researchers combined the protective […] New paper:
July 8, 2015
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Centre Affiliate, Dr Staffan Persson recently had a paper published in Nature Plants, titled “V-ATPase activity in the TGN/EE is required for exocytosis and recycling in Arabidopsis” Below is a summary of the work discussed in the article: The membrane that surrounds cells, also called the plasma membrane, is a defining feature for life, and […] |
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