ARC Training Centre for Future Crops Development

Come and visit us today at the Royal Canberra Show! Learn about our crops of the future.
There’s a lot of cool science here today in the inspiringAustralia area - and great aircon!

New Director Appointed at ARC Training Centre for Crops Announcing Associate Professor Anthony Millar as the new Director of ARC Training Centre for Accelerated Future Crops Development. Learn more!

Welcome to our new Centre Director Associate Professor Tony Millar! Catch up on all the news here futurecropscentre.edu.au/media-releas...

We’re thrilled to celebrate Julian Greenwood, awarded the GRDC Mid-Career Fellowship for his innovative work on improving blackleg resistance in canola through advanced transient assays.
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#cropscience #innovation #canola #synbio
@scienceanu.bsky.social

🌾 Visit @futurecropsau.bsky.social & #UniofAdelaide School of Agriculture, Food & Wine at the #2025RoyalAdelaideShow!
👩‍🔬 Build wheat terrariums
🎨 Paint with soils
🦗 Try cricket chips
🍷 Explore wine ferments

📍 Golden Grains Pavilion
🗓️ Daily 9–5, until 7 Sept

We’re hiring!
Join us at @scienceanu.bsky.social in Canberra as a Technical Officer to work on lab-based research in #Syn_Bio & #CropScience alongside our Innovation Fellows.

Apply now and help shape the future of #agriculture:
shorturl.at/KNEVL

#plantscience #community #training

Happy #scienceweek! Our Centre ran an event in Adelaide on the future of #agriculture and #synbio. Yesterday’s topic: “To Edit or Not to Edit?”.
Scientists, students, farmers, policymakers—what’s your view? @waiteresearch @UniofAdelaide #cropscience

We're proud to support our students through strong engagement with industry leaders—helping turn research into real-world impact.
Read Reshma’s story on the dual purpose of carinata: shorturl.at/Cw56I
Thank you to our partners NuFarm,NSW DPIRD,CSIRO,ARC, @scienceanu.bsky.social #biofuel #cropscience

HHU successful in the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments There has been much rejoicing in Düsseldorf, Gatersleben, Jülich and Cologne today: the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Science and Humanities Council (WR) announced that the joint CEP...

Congratulations to our partners @ceplas.bsky.social on their third round of funding where they will decipher how complex plant traits are influenced by environmental factors. Excited to have one of our Centre students visit CEPLAS soon to learn more! shorturl.at/No7Oe #futurecrops

How wonderful to see two PhD students — Lavi Singh and Samantha Whitling — speak at the launch of the Plant Biosecurity Centre! Inspiring next-gen scientists in action @arc-pbtc.bsky.social

Problematic use of sustainability claims in recent scientific literature on crop gene technologies: toward improving practices and communication This article provides a structured analysis of the recent scientific literature to investigate increasingly frequent claims about “sustainability,” including how this term is defined and measured in ....

Are you using the term #sustainability? Congrats to our student Chris Wenzl, our fellow Emily Buddle & PI @rachelankeny.bsky.social on this paper published in The Plant Journal shorturl.at/50g4w! It highlights the need for clearer definitions & metrics in #agriculturalgenomics #sciencecommunication

The Future Crops Training Centre has recruited a full student cohort. We look forward to showcasing more of their research, training and industry engagement. Check out this article shorturl.at/f8tiI from one of our Centre students Rebeccah Tyrrell

Great news – we’re now on Instagram! Follow us @futurecropsau to discover more about our students' projects. Stay tuned for more videos coming soon! #STEM #science #plantscience #biofuel #biology #futurecrops @ourANU @nswagriculture @arc_gov_au

What a fabulous week filming our Centre researchers and collaborators at Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute in December. We can’t wait to share the footage.
Thanks @scienceanu.bsky.social, NSWDPI agriculture, Nic and all the students who took part. Stay tuned!