Plants

Studying the genetic relationships between desert plants is helping Dr Rachael Fowler to understand how they evolved in Australia’s arid zone, once dense forest

Scientists are in a battle to keep the world’s food supply dependable, and new research into crop genomes is helping to lead the way

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

A new approach predicts how plants respond to fire, helping scientists, land managers and the community protect thousands of species from biodiversity loss

Fossil pollen preserved in rocks for 56 million years provides new insights into the consequences of carbon-fuelled global warming

Public spaces across Australia are being planted with beautiful, practical, native Woody Meadows

Discovering chemicals that affect plant circadian rhythms could improve crop yields – bringing us a step closer to ‘chronoculture’

There are still thousands of Australian plant and fungi species to be described and citizen scientists are contributing to recording our biodiversity

Pollen preserved in rocks for more than 56 million years reconstruct Earth’s major climatic transition that caused mass plant migration

Researchers have bred smaller soybean plants with the same yield, raising the possibility that smaller crops could grow more food from less land in our changing climate