Dr Mohammad Pourkheirandish

Senior Lecturer in crop genetics and molecular breeding, 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

Environment

Wheat’s ancient roots of viral resistance

New research finds that the gene that protects wheat from Wheat Yellow Mosaic Virus originated in an ancient wild relative