Congratulations to Professor Kerry Wilkinson, who has taken out the STEMM Educator of the Year (University category) at the SA Science Excellence Awards.

A new article just published in the journal Science reports that root growth in compacted soil is actively suppressed by the volatile plant hormone ethylene.

The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) awards a science bursary of $1,500 to a female graduate every year. Applications for the 2021 bursary are now open, and will close at the end of March 2021.

Agricultural scientists and engineers at the University of Adelaide have identified a potential new tool for screening cereal crops for frost damage

A cross-NCRIS collaboration between the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) and Bioplatforms Australia (BPA) has been successful in securing investment worth $400k over two years from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) for a high-impact Cross-NCRIS data partnership project called OzBarley.

An international team of plant scientists have shown the potential to rapidly improve the quality of barley grain through a genetic tool known as CRISPR or gene editing.