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.
Two postgraduate researchers from Swinburne University of Technology have joined the global effort to maintain civilisation’s anti-bacterial defence by delving into the secrets of penicillin (the first antibiotic breakthrough in the 1940s), and investigating marine microorganisms considered a potential source of therapeutic drugs.
