Researchers have isolated a compound from an Australian desert shrub with a long history of medicinal use by the Indigenous peoples of Australia that could help cancer patients better respond to ...

Lucy Commander receives funding from the Australian Network for Plant Conservation and the NSW Government through its Environmental Trust. Heidi Zimmer is a Senior Scientist at the NSW Government ...

A study of fossil sites in Australia has revealed "exquisitely preserved" plants that lived millions of years ago. The material in which the fossils described in the study occur is called silcrete.

Years of scouring the bush and breeding work at The University of Queensland have resulted in new varieties of a native Australian plant valuable to the global pharmaceutical industry. Postdoctoral ...

Scientists at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia have discovered a gene in an ancient Australian native tobacco plant that they say is the key to growing crops in space. The ...

Linda Broadhurst receives funding from the Threatened Species Commissioner and the Australian Commonwealth Government. She is affiliated with the Australian Network for Plant Conservation. Norfolk ...