A team of scientists from Swinburne and the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne are hoping to unlock the acacia plant’s genetic secrets to counteract the threat of dryland salination, the so-called white death.
While farmers the world over have been struggling under the withering impact of a drying climate, new research is helping scientists crack the genetic code of a family of proteins that could help Australia - the world's driest inhabited continent - continue to see its wheat industry flourish.
