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    • Professor Staffan Persson

    ARC Future Fellow, School of BioSciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

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    Sciences & Technology

    What plant proteins can tell us about Alzheimer’s

    Plant biologists have described how a protein called CC1 helps plants to grow under salt stress and, intriguingly, it shares features with a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease

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    Environment

    Engineering plants for a sustainable future

    Scientists have discovered the genetic master switches for a plant’s body mass production and it brings with it the potential to produce new biomaterials and bioplastics

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    Sciences & Technology

    Finding the building blocks of wood

    Scientists are looking inside plant cells to learn how wood is formed and how that process can help develop materials for the future

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    Environment

    Unlocking the inner workings of plant growth

    Sustainable biofuels are closer to reality after the discovery of a key step in plant cell wall production.

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