News: Honours projects - Soil science
Use of drones to assess the performance of wheat in sodic soils
Honours project: Investigate wheat growth and yield in high-sodium soils using drone-mounted imaging techniques
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Identifying novel tolerance to subsoil constraints in a FIGS wheat set
Honours project: Identify wheat lines from around the world that are tolerant to subsoil challenges such as high salinity and soil pH
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Improving wheat yields in dispersive soils
Honours project: Examine how wheat yield can be improved by increasing tolerance to different soil constraints
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Effect of micronutrients on the growth of wheat in sodic soils
Honours project: Examine how micronutrient interactions alter the growth and ion concentrations of wheat in sodic soils
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Shoots or roots - which controls plant-fungal interactions?
Honours project: Investigate the origin of signals affecting colonisation of plant roots by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
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Nutrient cycling and soil respiration
Honours project: Investigate how soil microbial activity and nutrient availability are influenced by changes in water content or exposure to high temperature.
Restoration ecology: Plant-microbe feedbacks
Honours project: Do local soil microbiomes impact on Australian plant fitness?
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Restoration ecology: Smart cities
Honours project: How can we optimise the management of Adelaide’s street trees?
Using remote sensing to measure the variation in suspended sediment in Gulf St. Vincent
Honours project: Use remote sensing project to characterise historical variation in suspended sediment in Gulf St. Vincent.
Developing usable rangeland-condition assessment tools
Honours project: Develop useable rangeland-condition assessment tools in the area of remote sensing.
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