Southern Cross Plant Science (SCPS) is a leader in research and development in underpinning the cultivation and utilisation of plants.
30/03/2023
Plants can 'talk' and scientists have recorded the sound they make as they die of thirst Plants make sounds outside human earshot in response to stress - from being cut or a lack of water - that can be heard up to five metres away. Are they talking to each other?
Coffee Research in the news!
10/01/2023
Just want to acknowledge the work Alicia has done for SCPS projects and students across the years as our horticulturalist and wish her best of luck in future endeavors. Her humor and hard work will be missed by all.
05/01/2023
Congratulations to Tobias and Terry who were recognised for their contribution to Research in the Vice Chancellors Award ceremony which took place in December on the Lismore campus!
07/11/2022
Congratulations to Dr. Liliana Andres Hernandez who was conferred her PhD on the weekend here in Lismore! Felicidades Lili!
27/10/2022
Interview on our Coffee trials led by Associate Professor Tobias Kretzschmar.
Can scientists develop a coffee bean more resistant to climate change? | FT Food Revolution The world’s top coffee producing nations all lie at similar tropical latitudes, where even small rises in temperature are forecast to have severe consequences for people and agriculture. But as the FT’s Nic Fildes reports, in Australia scientists are tackling the problem by trying to develop a b...
08/09/2022
Best of luck to Razlin Mohd Azman Halimi who is leaving us to pursue a Post Doc position with the University of Melbourne. We will miss your positive and cheery personality around the halls.
Razlin will be moving to Shepparton and working at the UofM Dookie campus.
06/07/2022
Congrats to our very own Dr Guo Qi for her amazing accomplishment 🧑🎓🪴🌱
01/07/2022
Four of SCPS recent PhD's at the Gold Coast Graduation Ceremony. Was a great time and wonderful to see them in all their regalia!
Congratulations to Dr. Ben Liu and Dr. Simon Williams who together led the research for the Coffee Terroir review paper published in the journal Foods. You can read this at the link below:
https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/11/13/1907
Congratulations to our ontology experts Dr Lilliana Andres, Prof Graham King and Dr Ramil Mauleon on their recent paper. They are part of an international group working towards improving ontologies for describing nutritional components from food production to diet.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.928837/full
29/04/2022
Congratulations to MSc student Janelle Schafer and supervisors on the publication of their paper on Isolation and Identification of Acylphloroglucinols in the Australian
Isolation and Identification of Acylphloroglucinols in the Medicinal Plant, Melaleuca alternifolia (Australian Tea Tree) Chemistry & BiodiversityVolume 19, Issue 3 e202100944 Research ArticleOpen Access Isolation and Identification of Acylphloroglucinols in the Medicinal Plant, Melaleuca alternifolia (Australian Tea Tree) Janelle J. Schafer, Janelle J. Schafer orcid.org/0000-0003-3719-9204 Southern Cross Plant Science...