People

Current PhD students:

Olivia Brunton (based at CSIRO Canberra and Charles Sturt University)

Project: The potential benefits of dual placement phosphorus fertiliser application to south-eastern Australian crop species.

Completed PhD students:

2021: Matthias Salomon (co-supervised by A/Prof Tim Cavagnaro and Prof Mike McLaughlin)

Project: The role of mycorrhizas in urban agriculture systems.

2021: Cuc Tran (co-supervised by A/Prof Tim Cavagnaro and Dr Ron Smernik)

Project: The impact of arbuscular mycorrhizas on nitrogen and phosphorus cycling and leaching in soil.

2021: Hue Ngo (co-supervised by A/Prof Tim Cavagnaro)

Project: Optimising phosphate supply to plant by adding mixture of organic and inorganic P sources, and the effect on mycorrhizal colonisation.

2020: Binh Tran (co-supervised by A/Prof Tim Cavagnaro)

Project: The effect of arbuscular mycorrhizas on the growth and nutrition of important food crops.

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Binh (left) and Matthias (right) harvesting plants in the lab

Field shot

Hue, Matthias and Cuc collecting soil in regional South Australia

Masters of Biotechnology (Plant Biotechnology) students (2018):

Ms Diem Nguyen

Project: The interaction between soil Zn, P, and mycorrhizal inoculation on Medicago truncatula nutrition and gene expression.

Mr Ahmed Al-Mutairi

Project: How do different barley cultivars varying in zinc deficiency tolerance respond to mycorrhizal inoculation?

Masters

Diem and Ahmed preparing seeds in the lab