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Do plants need to sleep?
Honours project: There's evidence in some plants that lack of a dark period can inhibit growth - so do plants need sleep?
Environmental monitoring with drones: Fire
Honours project: Use drones to model fire break design to manage fire while minimising ecological disturbances; or investigate spatial regrowth dynamics of Mallee after a fire.
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Stomatal protection mechanisms in Casuarinaceae
Honours project: Investigate how this iconic family manage to evolve to the point where it is one of the last trees standing in arid Australia.
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Evolution of photosynthetic organs in Acacia
Honours project: Explore the evolution of photosynthetic organs in Acacia.
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Tropical rainforest in Antarctic latitudes
Honours project: Examine fossil floras to help answer important questions about South Australia’s ecological history.
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Fossil history of selected plant taxa
Honours project: Explores a detailed examination of the fossil history of selected plant taxa.
Molecular mechanism of male reproduction in cereals
Honours project: Comprehensive training of functional gene research combined with plant science, cell biology, and developmental biology.
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Re-vegetating South Australia
Honours project: Go back in time and use fossil records to help determine what species of flora we can re-vegetate parts of South Australia with.
Plant taxa & reconstruction of fossil palaeoenvironments
Honours project: Assess the environmental ranges of key fossil plant taxa from south-eastern Australia.
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Chironomids in extreme environments
Honours project: Non-biting midges (Chironomidae) are very similar to mosquitoes, and are masters at survival.
