News: Honours projects - Plant science
Leaf morphology in silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii)
Honours project: This flora holds important clues to the way in which trees coped with major climate changes.
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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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Bioinformatics as applied to the study of genome structure and function
Honours project: Expand your knowledge and curiosity in bioinformatics and computational genetics.
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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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Live cell imaging of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) signals in plants
Honours project: Investigate plant stress responses by visualisation of GABA signals in real time using confocal microscopy techniques.
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Transcriptional control of GABA signalling in plants
Honours project: Examine regulation of enzymatic pathway gene transcription in plants in response to changing environments.
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Plant systematics & population genetics, evolutionary ecology & plant macrofossils
Honours project: Work with some of South Australia’s leading scientists on a research project about plant systematics and population genetics, evolutionary ecology or plant macrofossils.
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