Supervisor: Professor Xu Zhihong
Research projects
- Biogeochemical processes of carbon (C) and nutrients in agricultural, agroforestry and horticultural production systems
- Bioavailability and management of organic and inorganic pollutants in food production systems
- Integrated use of innovative stable isotope, biomolecular and physiological techniques for evaluating both genetic and environmental controls of plant water and nutrient use efficiency
- Integrated use of advanced stable isotope, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and bio-molecular technologies for improving the understanding of soil organic matter dynamics and nutrient cycling in food production systems
- Impacts of global climate change and local management on biological nitrogen fixation and mineral nutrition of legumes in sustainable food production systems
- Greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in food production systems
- Biotic and abiotic factors controlling plant water use efficiency and nutrient cycling in sustainable food production systems
- Functional diversity and composition of soil microbial populations in C and nutrient cycling processes within sustainable food production systems
- Plant-soil-microbe interactions on biogeochemical processes of C and nutrient cycling
- Hyperspectral imaging and remote sensing of terrestrial C stocks and nutrient pools
- Modelling biogeochemical cycles of C and nutrients in food production systems
- Soil fertility and mineral nutrition of crop plants and pasture plants
- Beneficial use of recycled urban organic wastes in food production systems
Supervisor: Associate Professor Rebecca Ford
Research projects
- Determining differential defence responses to an important pathogen in lentil through transcriptomics approaches.
- Tracking of molecular defence to the major fungal pathogen Ascochyta rabiei in chickpea via quantitative real-time PCR.
- Assessing resource savings through food waste redistribution
- Improving food security for local island communities
Supervisor: Professor Nigel Stork
Research projects
- What role do insects and other arthropods play in the diets of local people in China? What is the nutritional value they benefit?
- How the supply and availability of insects and other arthropods as food is changing with land use change and the move of people from rural regions to cities?
Supervisor: Professor Sushila Chang
Research projects
- Nutrient security (from seed to plate)
- Can food safety and quality systems help food security?
Supervisor: Dr Michael Williams
michael.williams@griffith.edu.au
Research projects
- Analysis of krill, calamari and fish oils for omega-3 levels and for contamination by heavy metals.
- Analysis of the cholesterol lowering plant sterols in vegetable oils and margarines
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