The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is developing innovative tools and strategies to improve the productivity of plants and their resilience to heat and drought. By looking to nature, we are discovering the diverse adaptive strategies that plants use to deal with heat and drought. Capitalising on rapid advances in genome sequencing and computational and mathematical capability, we are joining the dots between desirable whole-plant adaptive traits and the complex interplay of the genetic and physiological networks that underpin them. With this new knowledge and through our multidisciplinary approach, we are developing predictive tools for plant breeding that will transform the industry. Not only are we future-proofing crops and native plant species, we are also modernising outdated legal and social frameworks, advancing evolutionary systems biology, and transforming plant science for the next generation.

Website

https://www.plantsuccess.org/

Organisation type

• QUT Node

Number of research staff

100-200 research staff

Address

Queensland University of Technology, 2 George Street, Brisbane QLD 4000

Strengths and capabilities

• Understanding physiological and genetic drivers of adaptions in plants
• Mathematics and software to estimate phenotype/yield based on genotype
• Innovative legal paradigms to protect complex and intangible intellectual proprty
• Novel plant genomes and genomic diversity to help safeguard species

Facilities and major equipment

• High performance computing

Key science sectors

More information about the sectors this centre is involved in:

• Environment and nature
• Food and agriculture
• Tropical