Our research group brings together diverse expertise in applied and fundamental research across staple and native crop cultivation and animal production systems.
Our research group focuses on the following areas:
- High-throughput phenotyping of genotypes for various abiotic and biotic stresses.
- Silicon-mediated drought and heat tolerance at the physiological, biochemical, and molecular level for crops.
- Understanding native crop cultivation and their nutritional profiling for their development as commercial crops from paddock to plate.
- Understanding dual-purpose crop production for sustained grazing, crop yields, and maintaining soil health.
- Pre-breeding and breeding of abiotic and biotic stress resistance to develop new crop cultivars.
- Speed-breeding to shorten the crop breeding cycle.
- Sustainable Agricultural Intensification production practices for resilient farming systems.
- Impacts of modern agriculture on livelihoods and food security of smallholder farmers.
- Understanding drivers for enterprise diversification at a regional level.
