Media
TV, Radio, Newspaper and online content about our research
GABA (selected from ~100 news features)
- The Lead – ‘New research shows plants use animal neurotransmitters to send signals’
- ABC Rural – SA Country Hour, Radio interview and online story (audio)
- SCOPE – Channel Ten Television Science program for kids (video)
- Serious Science – Animal nerve signal is an innate plant stress signal (online interview)
- IFL Science – ‘Plants use neurotransmitter to signal stress’ (online media)
- 5aa – ‘Stressed out plants’ (radio interview)
- Radio Adelaide – ‘GABA signalling in plants’ (radio interview)
- Sci-news.com – ‘Stressed Plants Use Animal-Like Signals, New Study Shows’ (online media)
- Mashable – ‘Plants send animal-like stress signals, research shows’ (online media)
- Metro.co.uk – ‘Bad news, vegetarians – plants feel stress just like human beings’ (online media)
- 2GB (radio interview)
Salinity tolerance (selected from over 600 news features online)
- Radio Adelaide – Harvest Radio, ‘Breeding salt tolerance’ (audio)
- ABC Rural – SA Country Hour, ‘Australian and Chinese scientists discover genes that boost salt tolerance in soybean’ (online news and radio audio)
- Austrade – ‘Salt loving wheat’ (online commentary)
- ABC AM – ‘Salty wheat success’ (online news and radio audio)
- ABC Radio National – ‘Breakthrough in salt tolerant wheat’ (radio audio)
- BBC World Service – Science in Action – Salt tolerance in wheat (radio audio, after 8m20s)
- ABC Online -‘Key to salt tolerant wheat found’ (online news)
- The Australian – ‘Cross bred wheat lifts yields’ (newspaper article)
- New Scientist – ‘Hybrid wheat is worth its salt on irrigated land’ (popular science article)
- Reportage – ‘Discovery of salt resistant wheat could revolutionise farming’ (news online)
- ABC News – ‘Success for salt-resistant wheat crop’ (online news and radio)
- Reuters – ‘Experts develop salt-tolerant, high yield wheat (online news)
- Red Orbit – ‘Making salt tolerant wheat’ (online news)
- The Conversation – ‘New variety of salt-tolerant wheat could help address food shortages’ (online comment)
- ECOS- ‘Salt tolerant wheat a world first’ (online news)
- News.com.au – ‘Throw this over your shoulder, global food crisis – its salt tolerant wheat’ (newspaper article reproduced online)
- Scientific American – ‘Ancient genes and modern science deliver salt tolerant wheat’ (Blog)
Careers in Science
Grapevine rootstocks
- ABC Rural – ‘Scientist gets grant to map DNA of wine grape rootstock’ (online media and radio interview)
- Australian and New Zealand Grapegrower and Winemaker – ‘Researcher to decode key Australian rootstock’ (industry journal interview)
- GWRDC – ‘Wine science award to sequence rootstock genome’
Press releases
- University 0f Adelaide – ‘VitiCanopy – a new tool to help manage grapevines’
- University of Adelaide – ‘Stressed out plants send animal-like signals’
- University of Adelaide – ‘Research finds salt tolerance gene in soybean’
- University of Adelaide – ‘New research project to produce salinity tolerant crops’
- University of Adelaide – ‘Standing tall for science’
- University of Adelaide – ‘World breakthrough on salt-tolerant wheat’
- Wine Australia – ‘Wine science award to sequence rootstock genome’
- University of Adelaide – ‘Wine science award to Waite researcher’
- University of Adelaide – ‘World conference on biology behind food security’
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