Opportunities
Research and training opportunities in CNAP
Crops for a sustainable planet
Our projects
We are performing trials designed to test the effectiveness of CroBio’s soil amendment, with a focus on metrics relevant to nutrient management.
We are engineering transgenic plants able to remediate explosives contaminated land.
We are developing new Amaranth varieties with improved nutritional content and agronomic traits, such as yield and water use efficiency.
We are using biology to understand the mechanisms behind metal uptake and storage to develop plants to recover technology-critical metals from our environment.
We are looking for novel sources of abiotic stress tolerance in landrace wheat varieties.
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We are investigating how phages (plant-specific viruses) can be used to combat wilt disease caused by infection with Ralstonia solanacearum bacteria.
We integrate omics, structural and functional activity studies to characterise enzymatic virulence factors produced by Phytophthora pathogens at the plant cell wall interface.
We are identifying candidate genes and genetic markers associated with resistance to fungal pathogens in lettuce.
We use state-of-the-art genomics to explore the molecular basis of both natural and induced genetic variation in rapeseed.
This research will elucidate the physiological mechanisms and key genes that govern grain weight, grain number and grain yield in wheat.
We are using gene editing approaches to modify the cell wall in the roots of cassava varieties to improve texture and nutritional value.