Dr Millicent Smith
Lecturer Crop Physiology
School of Agriculture and Food Sciences
Affiliate Lecturer
Centre for Crop Science

Researcher biography
Millicent is a plant physiologist with expertise in legume crops. Typically working at the whole plant or crop level, her research is focused on understanding the above- and below-ground mechanisms that underpin adaptation to abiotic stress and the impacts of changing resource availability on yield and seed nutrient content. Millicent has extensive experience developing and applying novel chemical, isotopic and physiological phenotyping techniques and technologies across scales from lab to field.
Featured projects | Duration |
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Evaluating salinity tolerance in diverse taro wild relative to enhance food security in the Pacific Islands | 2021–2022 |
Hotter, drier, CRISPR: the latest edit on pulse crops | 2001–2021 |
Can mungbean beat the heat? | |
Towards high yielding mungbean varieties with synchronous flowering | 2021–2022 |
Can mungbean beat the heat? | 2021–2022 |