Dr Allison Gurung

School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Sciences & Technology

Going back to the future for food crops

New sensing techniques can detect drought tolerance in ancient relatives of wheat and barley. Making it possible to use these traits to breed new food crops for a warmer world

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