Identifying a New Plant Hormone to Boost Plant Performance. This project aims to discover the identity of an unknown plant hormone that controls diverse aspects of plant development including seed ger

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Identifying a New Plant Hormone to Boost Plant Performance. This project aims to discover the identity of an unknown plant hormone that controls diverse aspects of plant development including seed germination and responses to abiotic stress. This interdisciplinary project will leverage recent advances in our genetic resources and new chemical tools to reveal how plants produce, metabolise and respond to this new plant hormone. Expected outcomes of this project include a more complete understanding of the hormonal control of plant growth under variable environments, and how such growth responses can be manipulated. Benefits of this project include opportunities to improve plant performance by chemical or genetic approaches in diverse sectors such as food production and restoration ecology.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 3108 - Plant Biology. Lead: A/Prof Gavin Flematti