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Optimising energy use efficiency to increase wheat yield

This is a multi-national, multi university project, including CIMMYT in Mexico. Greater than 85-90% of the energy captured by plants is used in ‘futile cycles’ and high-cost cellular processes, such as transport of nutrients and respiration, meaning only 10-15% is allocated to yield.

This project is open to PhD students

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Acacia evolution: why do some species evolve faster than others? Bachelor, Honours, PhD
New methods in phylogenetics Honours, Bachelor, PhD
Reading the history of mutations in individual plants Honours, Masters, PhD
A molecular view of Australian biodiversity - exploring insect genomes for major shifts in functional genes Masters, PhD
A synthetic biology approach to supercharging plant CO2 fixation Honours, Bachelor, PhD
A yeast surface display nanobody factory Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Abiotic stress signalling, developmental programming and plant adaptation Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Acoustic communication in birds Honours, PhD
Agrochemical control of stress signalling pathways for enhanced stress tolerance Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Alarm signals and interspecific eavesdropping Honours, PhD
ANU International applicants for PhDs in Biomedical Science and Biochemistry PhD
Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF, ARC LIEF project) Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Australian native truffle diversity Honours
Bioinformatic / Computational methods Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Bioinformatics and gene discovery in wheat rust pathogens Bachelor, Honours, PhD
Biologically inspired membranes for the efficient desalination of water Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
C4 Rice Project Honours, PhD
Caenorhabditis elegans as a potential animal model to study host-pathogen interactions Honours, Masters, PhD
Can seedling screens of energy use efficiency in wheat transfer to yield in the field? Bachelor
Cancer metabolism Honours, Masters, PhD
Carotenoid derivatives as chloroplast signals Honours, PhD
Cellular adaptations that allow the transmission and survival of Plasmodium falciparum when taken up by the mosquito Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Characterisation of a new clade within the mitochondrial transcription termination factor (mTERF) family implicated in fertility restoration in plants. Bachelor
Characterising the Zymospetoria tritici - wheat interaction Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Characterization of low CO2 sensitive Arabidopsis photosynthetic mutants Honours, Bachelor, PhD

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