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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

From Monday 5 March 2012 until Friday 15 April 2012 images from the ARC Centre for Excellence in Plant Energy Biology will be on display in the Science Library Foyer, in an exhibition titled 'Secrets of a Tiny Powerplant'.

Plants are the lungs and bread-bowl of the Earth. They make the food we eat, create the oxygen we breathe and remove our waste carbon dioxide from the air. The world's plants also produce six times more energey than humans consume each year.

Plant scientists delve deep inside plants to study the tiny cells from which they are built. This display will take you on a journey through a plant's world - from bushfires spanning hundreds of metres across, right down to cells and even molecules one millionth of a metre in length.

"These images bring cells alive and highlight the importance of molecular research," says Centre spokeswoman Alice Trend. "Right now, finding out how plants work at a cellular level is essential if we are going to breed or engineer plants to overcome drought, flood or heat stress."

"Not only are these images beautiful and mysterioius, but each of them has allowed us to understand a little bit more about how plants survive."

The ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology brings together over 90 researchers from Australian National University, The University of Western Australia and The University of Adelaide.

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