Phytogen Blog

ASPS publishes a society newsletter, Phytogen, in order to reach our own members plus general readers with an interest in developments in Australian plant science. Phytogen is thus a vehicle for communicating new ideas, recent professional experiences, and forthcoming events. Routine items include: invitations to submit applications for Society awards that identify outstanding researchers, nominations for election of Corresponding members overseas, nominations for RN Robertson and JG Wood lectures, advance notice of plant science meetings and of course, reminders to renew subscriptions! Phytogen is published in electronic format as a blog, and is also summarised 2-3 times per year in a PDF and email newsletter format.  For content submissions contact Dr Janet Wheeler Janet.Wheeler@latrobe.edu.au

 

Past Phytogen Editors: Dr Paul Kriedmann (1995-2001), Professor Helen Irving (2001-2013),  , Dr Gonzalo Estavillo, Adjunct Professor Tina Offler, Dr Christopher Cazzonelli (2013-2019), Georgia Koerber (2019-2023).

 

Countdown to 60 years of ASPS – Thoughts from some of our leaders

Professor Sergey Shabala had his first exposure to the Australian plant science community nearly 23 years ago, while attending Combio in Sydney in 1995. Being raised under strict academic rules in the former USSR, I was probably the only person wearing a suit and a tie at that meeting
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Count down to 60 years of ASPS – The beginning

Count down to 60 years of ASPS Dear ASPS members, with about 6 weeks until ComBio 2018, make sure you check the website for a new post to Phytogen each Monday. This beginning post has been emailed to start you off and will be on our website after that (https://www.asps.org.au/) The po
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More inspirational ComBio 2017 students

ComBio 2017 was the first conference I attended during my PhD studies and it was so unforgettable, as I saw the outline of the future of agriculture in this conference. I presented my poster about QTL identified on controlling photosynthetic traits in Barley, talked about the genetic
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Read about talented students from ComBio2017

Biotechnology has always fascinated me for being able to modify the crops for a sustainable agricultural production using foreign genes. After finishing my major in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (2013) from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, I started applying for PhD position
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Reports from ComBio2017, Student Travel Grants, ComBio2018 C.O.B. today

Here are Chenchen and Mainul writing about ComBio2017. Hope you manage to get your applications in C.O.B. today for ComBio2018. An understanding of the mechanisms which have evolved to allow plants to tolerate drought are crucial to the development of crops which can be productive in
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World Environment Day Tuesday 5th June 2018

Hope you manage to reflect on your efforts this coming World Environment Day, Tuesday 5th June 2018. This years theme is Beat Plastic Pollution.
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BENEFITS TO APPLY FOR THE PLANT NUTRITION TRUST FUND

PLANT NUTRITION TRUST REPORT by Wenli Ding University of Western Australia   It was really an honour to be awarded the Plant Nutrition Trust Award. I attended the International Plant Nutrition Colloquium from 21st to 24th August 2017 in Copenhagen. I have to say, this was really
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OXYGEN SENSING AND PLANT NUTRITION

PLANT NUTRITION TRUST REPORT by Feifei Wang School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania   I am honored to receive Plant Nutrition funding support to attend the 19th International Botanical Congress (IBC) in China. The conference was hold in Shenzhen during July 23rdto 29th, 2
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A SWEET TRUST FOR PHOSPHATE IN PROMOTING PLANT NUTRITION

PLANT NUTRITION TRUST REPORT by David Minemba University of Western Australia Introduction As recipient of The Plant Nutrition Trust Award, I visited LSU AgCenter and its Sweet Potato Research Station in Chase, Manroe. It also coincided with the Annual International Meeting of America
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