Smart Plants and Solutions for Enhancing Crop Resilience and Yield

    Project: Research

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    The Fellowship aims to produce transformative solutions targeting crop resilience and food security. Thechloroplast, the site of photosynthesis, regulates a suite of cellular processes that control photosynthesis, growthand drought resilience. It is expected that a first ever blueprint of the suite of communication networks used by thechloroplast will be discovered. I will use synthetic biology to rewire the network in order to generate 'smart plants'that are higher-yielding and more resilient in both good and bad seasons by precisely switching on and offresilience. Such re-imaginings of crop systems, inclusive of societal implications, will help chart the future ofAustralian agriculture.
    StatusActive
    Effective start/end date1/01/2131/12/25

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