Plant and soil sciences

A variety of research projects in Plant and soil sciences are available in our School for Honours and postgraduate coursework students enrolled at UQ.

You will gain valuable academic and professional skills, develop links with industry and academic contacts, and have the chance to road-test a career in research.

To find a project that aligns with your research interests, select a researcher from the list, below, and visit their UQ Researchers profile page to see their available projects.

UQ researcher	Project type
Professor Steve Adkins	Environmental Sciences; Biological Sciences; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Technology; Environmental Science and Management; Plant Biology; Agriculture, Land and Farm Management; Crop and Pasture Production; Horticultural Production; Agricultural Biotechnology; Conservation and Biodiversity; Environmental Rehabilitation (excl. Bioremediation); Plant Physiology; Plant Biology not elsewhere classified; Crop and Pasture Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds); Agricultural Biotechnology not elsewhere classified.
Professor Elizabeth Aitken	Biological Sciences; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Plant Biology; Horticultural Production; Plant Pathology; Horticultural Crop Improvement (Selection and Breeding); Horticultural Crop Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds).
Dr Jay Anderson
Professor Michael Bell	Soil Sciences; Crop and Pasture Production.
Mr Johannes Biala
Dr Sriti Burman
Dr Shane Campbell	Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Agriculture, Land and Farm Management; Crop and Pasture Production.
Dr Robyn Cave
Professor Scott Chapman	Biological Sciences; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Information and Computing Sciences; Genetics; Plant Biology; Agriculture, Land and Farm Management; Crop and Pasture Production; Horticultural Production; Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing; Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics); Plant Physiology; Agricultural Production Systems Simulation; Agricultural Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Agricultural Systems Analysis and Modelling; Farming Systems Research; Sustainable Agricultural Development; Agro-ecosystem Function and Prediction; Agronomy; Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology; Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts; Crop and Pasture Improvement (Selection and Breeding); Horticultural Crop Growth and Development; Computer Vision; Image Processing; Pattern Recognition and Data Mining; Simulation and Modelling; Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences; Biological Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Plant Biology; Climate Change impacts and adaption; Horticultural Production; Crop and Pasture Production; Agriculture, Land and Farm Management; Agricultural Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Agricultural Systems Analysis and Modelling; Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology; Agronomy; Horticultural Crop Growth and Development; Agro-ecosystem Function and Prediction; Sustainable Agricultural Development; Human Impacts of Climate Change and Human Adaption; Ecological Impacts of Climate Change and Ecological Adaption; Plant Physiology; Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts; Crop and Pasture Improvement (incl. selection and breeding); Agricultural Production Systems Simulation.
Mrs Malini Choudhury
Dr Peter Crisp	Biological Sciences; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Technology; Genetics; Plant Biology; Crop and Pasture Production; Agricultural Biotechnology; Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics); Plant Cell and Molecular Biology; Crop and Pasture Improvement (Selection and Breeding); Agricultural Molecular Engineering of Nucleic Acids and Proteins.
Miss Elizabeth Czislowski
Dr Yash Dang
Associate Professor Brett Ferguson	Plant Biology.
Professor Melissa Fitzgerald
Professor Victor Galea	Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Agriculture, Land and Farm Management; Crop and Pasture Production; Horticultural Production; Crop and Pasture Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds)
Dr Stephen Harper
Dr April Hastwell	Chemical Sciences; Biological Sciences; Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry; Genetics; Plant Biology; Proteins and Peptides; Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches); Plant Cell and Molecular Biology; Plant Biology not elsewhere classified; Biological Sciences; Plant Biology; Plant Cell and Molecular Biology; Plant Physiology.
Dr Richard Haynes	Soil Sciences
Dr Andrew Hewitt	Commercial Services; Agriculture, Land and Farm Management; Crop and Pasture Production.
Dr Lynn Hoffman
Dr Pengcheng Hu	Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Agriculture, Land and Farm Management; Crop and Pasture Production; Agricultural Production Systems Simulation; Agricultural Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Agricultural Systems Analysis and Modelling; Farming Systems Research; Sustainable Agricultural Development; Agro-ecosystem Function and Prediction; Agronomy; Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology; Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences; Agriculture, Land and Farm Management; Agricultural Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Agricultural Systems Snalysis and Modelling; Agricultural Production Systems Simulation.
Dr Chelsea Janke	Environmental Sciences; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Soil Sciences; Crop and Pasture Production; Soil Biology; Soil Chemistry (excl. Carbon Sequestration Science); Agronomy; Crop and Pasture Nutrition.
Dr Sundar Kalaipandian	Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences; Agricultural biotechnology; Horticultural production.
Dr Gunnar Kirchhof	Soil Sciences; Crop and Pasture Production; Environmental Engineering.
Dr Christopher Lambrides	Genetics; Plant Biology; Crop and Pasture Production.
Dr Cristina Martinez
Dr Tim McLaren
Professor Neal Menzies	Soil Sciences; Crop and Pasture Production.
Mrs Sandra Micallef
Dr Jaquie Mitchell	Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Engineering; Crop and Pasture Production; Food Sciences; Agronomy; Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology; Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts; Crop and Pasture Improvement (Selection and Breeding); Crop and Pasture Post Harvest Technologies (incl. Transportation and Storage).
Dr Vivi Noviati	Statistics; Crop and Pasture Production.
Dr Chris O'Donnell
Dr Tom Orton
Dr Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonhienne	Plant Biology.
Dr April Reside	Environmental Sciences; Biological Sciences; Ecological Applications; Environmental Science and Management; Ecology; Zoology; Other Biological Sciences; Ecological Impacts of Climate Change; Invasive Species Ecology; Conservation and Biodiversity; Environmental Management; Terrestrial Ecology; Vertebrate Biology; Global Change Biology.
Dr Nicole Robinson	Plant Biology; Agriculture, Land and Farm Management; Crop and Pasture Production.
Professor Peer Schenk	Plant Biology; Crop and Pasture Production; Agricultural Biotechnology.
Professor Susanne Schmidt	Environmental Sciences; Biological Sciences; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Ecological Applications; Environmental Science and Management; Soil Sciences; Ecology; Plant Biology; Agriculture, Land and Farm Management; Forestry Sciences; Ecological Impacts of Climate Change; Conservation and Biodiversity; Natural Resource Management; Soil Biology; Ecological Physiology; Plant Physiology; Farming Systems Research; Tree Nutrition and Physiology.
Dr Millicent Smith	Biological Sciences; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Plant Biology; Crop and Pasture Production; Plant Developmental and Reproductive Biology; Plant Physiology; Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology.
Dr Evan Stephens	Plant Biology; Industrial Biotechnology.
Dr Bernhard Wehr	Soil Sciences; Plant Biology; Crop and Pasture Production.
Dr Han Weng	Environmental Sciences; Soil Sciences; Soil Chemistry (excl. Carbon Sequestration Science).
Dr Alwyn Williams	Environmental Sciences; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Environmental Science and Management; Soil Sciences; Crop and Pasture Production; Forestry Sciences; Horticultural Production; Environmental Rehabilitation (excl. Bioremediation); Carbon Sequestration Science; Soil Biology; Agro-ecosystem Functionand Prediction; Agronomy; Crop and Pasture Nutrition; Crop and Pasture Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds); Agroforestry; Horticultural Crop Growth and Development.
Dr Wendy Williams	Environmental Sciences; Soil Sciences; Land Capability and Soil Degradation; Soil Biology.
Dr Anthony Young	Biological Sciences; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics; Microbiology; Plant Biology; Zoology; Crop and Pasture Production; Horticultural Production; Biogeography and Phylogeography; Host-Parasite Interactions; Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis; Genomics; Molecular Evolution; Bacteriology; Infectious Agents; Microbial Genetics; Microbial Ecology; Mycology; Microbiology not elsewhere classified; Plant Pathology; Invertebrate Biology.