Plant Science Research

Plant science researchers look at ways to improve production of food, pharmaceuticals and timber; control diseases, pests and noxious weeds; help plants better cope with weather extremes and global warming and design new plants for innovative purposes.

 UQ is renowned as one of the premier plant science research, training and education universities in Australia.
The University is host to an ARC Centre of Excellence, a Cooperative Research Centre, Australia’s largest industry collaborative research program and spin-off companies in plant biotechnology.
 
Plant science researchers within the School focus on:
  • plant defence mechanisms
  • improving crop yields
  • plant biofactories
  • improving disease resistance
  • biofuels
  • plant nutritional enhancement and signal transduction
 Researchers within the School have undertaken the world’s first field trials of genetically modified pineapples and the world’s first metabolically engineered sugarcane plants that produce high value sugars.

 

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