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Nitrogen fixation from legumes is worth $3 billion to the Australian agricultural economy, but changing rainfall patterns threatens much of this. One solution is to transition pasture growth to a reliance on perennial plants, which are less affected by unseasonal rain. Lebeckia ambigua is an outstanding perennial legume to begin this change, but its nitrogen fixation is severely compromised by nodulation failure, caused by death of its symbiotic rhizobia. This research project focuses on improving the survival in acid and infertile soils of the unique rhizobial symbionts we have discovered for Lebeckia ambigua in South Africa. If we succeed we can build an agriculture based upon legumes adapted to our future climate.

Co-funded research project for Meat and Livestock Australia/Australian Wool Innovation - Pasture legumes in the mixed farming zones of WA and NSW: shifting the baselineThe traditional legume feedbase has diminished in quality and quantity in mixed farming zones of WA and NSW over the last 25 years as a consequence of continuous cropping and climate variability. Alternative pasture legumes with physiological characteristics that make them more resilient to perturbations have been domesticated, and are now available for implementation to improve the feedbase. This project was undertaken by agronomists in NSW and WA associated with Murdoch University, Charles Sturt University and DPIRD, and has given producers the information to select, summer sow and manage these alternative pasture legumes. Grower Groups and producers were able to evaluate the benefits of doing so at the paddock scale. The new pasture legumes carried stock at high numbers through difficult winters, and provided the basis of better N nutrition to animals and crops, delivering up to $1200 per ha. in increased meat production. Three hundred and fifty tonnes of serradella were delivered for cleaning at one seed works in WA in 2016/2017, which demonstrates the massive adoption of the new species. Twenty-seven articles in rural newspapers and social media were aired on the project in 2016 and 2017, again indicating the popularity of the topic. As a consequence of the project, producers have been given the confidence to adopt alternative pasture legumes in situations where sub clover has been unreliable.

Post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cape Town, investigating the survival of Burkholderia species in South African soils and described the diversity of root nodule bacteria in association with several Lebeckia plant species.

Visiting fellow in the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences working on bacterial identification related to agriculture.

This projects aimed at identifying root nodule bacteria isolated from Lebeckia and Rhynchosia legume plants native to South-Africa and to gain knowledge on their host specificity. My job was to analyse the symbionts using a polyphasic approach and to describe them as novel species according to the Bacterial code.

Laboratory assistant and unit coordinator for the Microbiology practical undergraduate courses. As part of the Laboratory of Microbiology (http://lmg.ugent.be/).