Albert Chern Sun Wong
@albertcswong
Postdoc researcher #UQ | @QAAFI | @Godwin_Lab | Plant biotechnology, crop improvement, plant tissue culture | Sorghum | Macadamia
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28-02-2021 22:36:28
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UQ scientists are researching taro plants, to unlock a new variety of taro that’s ready for climate-change challenges at home and abroad, via a research partnership with Fiji. abctv #GardeningAustralia Millicent Smith #bradleyCampbell UQ News UQ Science abc.net.au/gardening/fact…
UQ Prof Andrew Borrell provides an update to 9News Sydney about how the war in Ukraine is impacting global wheat prices and food supply. UQ News Andrew Borrell Nick Pearson 9news.com.au/world/ukraine-…
Are you an Australian resident dreaming of a PhD with real-world outcomes and close industry links?! Join neena mitter and team QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation and be the first to develop cryobiotechnology to help preserve Australia’s macadamia species AustralianMacadamias Sydney Travel Jayeni Hiti-Bandaralage 🥑 @
Our review article on designing chickpea for a hotter drier world is out!!! Many thanks to Lee Hickey Millicent Smith Rajeev Varshney FRS Kai Voss-Fels Roy Costilla for their contributions. Check it out here:👇🏽 link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Check this out Godwin Lab Karen Massel, how Arabidopsis PIN8 is shown to bind and transport auxin.
Don’t miss Professor Ian Godwin, QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation Director of the Centre for Crop Science at the #ABTS2022! This presentation will focus on CRISPR beer: gene editing and #barley of the future Register to attend virtually or in-person: abts.w.kamevents.currinda.com Ian Godwin UQ News
Our book chapter on 'Genome Editing Towards Sorghum Improvement' is out now in Springer Nature. Contributors: Yasmine Lam, Jessica Hintzsche, Jemma Restall, Ian Godwin, Godwin Lab link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Our new paper showing that simply selecting for narrower leaves in sorghum could help improve transpiration efficiency and adaptation to hot and dry environments. rdcu.be/cTkez Xiaoyu Zhi QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation ARC CoETP
Andrew Borrell talks about the influence of pin and vrn genes on root and shoot architecture in sorghum at the Australian Sorghum Research Group Meeting.
Join us and Dr Andrew Borell at 12pm 23 August for a free Science Seminar on Cereal blueprints for a water-limited world Zoom 🔗uqz.zoom.us/j/88431230503 UQ News UQ Science Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland
It is time for #macadamia.. The #tissueculture developments neena mitter lab by our energetic postdoc Albert Chern Sun Wong Watch this space. Alice Hayward Please come talk to us at #UQ @TropAg2022 #Brisbane #Australia
Seed storage proteins - it's complicated. Sorghums with no beta-kafirin are more digestible. CRISPR KOs of beta-kafirin not so much. Why? Because there's more gamma-kafirin to compensate. Out now in Planta rdcu.be/c1pTm Karen Massel Ben Schulz Jessica Hintzsche Jemma Restall
Higher grain yield and surviving water scarcity are the outcomes of 30 years of #UQResearch. Learn more from Prof Andrew Borrell about the PIN genes. 🚜🌱 bit.ly/40iEzxw Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland Karen Massel David Jordan Emma Mace Ian Godwin George-Jaeggli
Our viewpoint article on integrating stay-green and PIN genes for designing climate-resilient cereal ideotypes is officially published on AoBP SI #EmergingVoices in #Botany academic.oup.com/aobpla/advance… Ian Godwin Andrew Borrell Erik van Oosterom
Looking for a PhD in plant sciences to lead research on dealing with climate change? The IRTG Accelerating Crop Genetic Gain QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation UQ Science has 5 new PhD scholarships to fill: study.uq.edu.au/study-options/…