News: Honours projects - Plant science
Improving drought and salt tolerance of wheat
Honours project: Examine wheat water use efficiency under saline conditions.
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Improving plant responses to sub-optimal conditions through plant hormones
Honours project: Make fundamental discoveries about how strigolactones act to alter the growth of plant root cells or applying the latest knowledge of strigolactones to crops.
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Role of an RNA m5C methyltransferase during plant reproduction
Honours project: Investigate the role of an RNA m5C methyltransferase during early reproductive development as mutants abort early during seed development.
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Design of biomimetic coatings to understand plant-pathogen relations
Honours project: Investigate how plant fungal pathogens adhere to and infect plant surfaces.
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Structural studies of cell wall proteins involved during pathogenesis
Honours project: Study the structure of fungal cell wall proteins using ion mobility mass spectrometry and X-ray crystallography.
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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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Assessing the effects of plant seed extracts on Caco2 cell cultures
Honours project: Investigate the nutritional value of a range of plant seeds using cell culture models
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Improving food safety using plasma sterilisation
Honours project: Investigate the use of a high energy form of matter (plasma) to improve food safety.
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Ecological & evolutionary genetics of plants, wildlife forensic biology
Honours project: How about a research project in ecological and evolutionary genetics of plants and wildlife forensic biology?
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4D in vivo biophotonics for metabolism and pain in real time
Honours project: Participate in an emerging area of science which could improve outcomes for type-1 diabetes sufferers as well as provide crucial redox balance information for athletes, livestock and plants.
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