Tag: Australian research

QUT researchers Dr Julia Bally and Professor Peter Waterhouse have discovered a plant with huge genome properties that can have the potential to be the 'laboratory rat' of the molecular plant world. This could open the door for such things as space-based food production Credit: Erika Fish

‘Magic’ Plant Discovery: Ancient Plant May Help Grow Food In Space

MessageToEagle.com | November 5, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – QUT scientists have discovered the gene that will open the door for space-based food production. Professor Peter Waterhouse, a plant geneticist at QUT, discovered the gene