$31,500 per annum plus RTP tuition offset for 3 years (domestic students)
Applications close 31st August 2023
The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE) is
offering a research scholarship to a highly motivated PhD
candidate to work on a project focused towards improving
production of vegetable crops and trailing technologies for
management of common bacterial diseases. The project is
co-funded by Horticulture Innovation Australia, the
Department of Primary Industries NSW, and Western
Sydney University.
The student will develop a toolbox for management
decisions by vegetable growers in the battle against
bacterial pathogens. They will study how biocontrol products
promote plant growth and nutrition while maintaining disease
suppression of the target pathogens. The student will then
scale up these results to determine targeted and timing based applications of these approaches under field-realistic conditions. Alongside these trials, the student will
experimentally test whether soil amendments can be used
on farms to suppress pathogen prevalence and disease
outbreaks by enhancing the activity of naturally occurring
free-living soil microbes.
The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE) is a
research institute within Western Sydney University. The
HIE has rapidly become a research leader in agronomic and
plant-microbe research, with a strong reputation for
delivering research outcomes of the highest quality. The
project will be based at HIE with the opportunity to work with
industry professionals.
For more information and to apply: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/scholarships/current_scholarships/current_scholarships/smart_glasshouse_films_to_reduce_energy_use_and_increase_resource_use_efficiency_under_protected_cropping.
