Numerous postgraduate research projects are available within the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, including projects offered through the Joint PhD scheme of the Adelaide-Nottingham Alliance.
Projects include:
- In-situ soil sampling for precision agriculture
- Precision fermentation – continuous biomanufacture of vegan milk proteins
- Mechanical properties of barley stems
- How does yeast chatter influence cell morphology?
- Establish the role of HKT in driving crop salinity tolerance and yield in a water limited environment
- Modelling locust behaviour to improve hopper band detection and countermeasures
- Improving Australian wine: Uncovering the mysteries of malolactic bacteria “the busy assistants of the wine cellar”
- Does sweet taste perception predict how the intestine absorbs glucose?
- Assessment of novel non-Saccharomyces species in wild Australian fermentative niches
- Using orchard recycling and soil organic amendments to improve productivity, soil carbon sequestration and reduce the environmental impacts of Australian almond production.
- Exploiting new breakthroughs in regulation of root growth angle to engineer climate resilient
- Identification and characterisation of pectin biosynthesis enzymes with importance in food and wine production
- Characterisation of hydrotropism in crop plants using barley as a model system
- Cold plasma technology to secure food safety and improve animal welfare
- Modelling growth and pattern formation in yeast biofilms
- Optimising the directed evolution of yeast strains for the wine fermentation process
- Analytics to bridge the gap between on-farm data and decisions
- Future-proofing agrifood supply chains
- Investigating the molecular role of TEOSINTE BRANCHED1 in controlling wheat yield potential
- Deciphering the role of Photoperiod-1 during floral development of wheat
- Scenario-neutral climate assessment of agricultural systems
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