Like many countries across the globe, Australia is facing numerous environmental challenges that have the potential to cripple production of some of the world’s most consumed foods.
As changes in the environment drastically affect plant growth, which in turn directly impacts food sustainability, in 2011 Professor Harvey Millar’s research team at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at The University of Western Australia, embarked on a journey to build a tool to help pinpoint the changes inside plant cells that could impact their growth – in the form of the world’s first plant protein monitoring database.
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