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Stopping yellow spot fungus that attacks wheat crops
Collaborators used X-ray imaging to understand the fine detail of how a damaging fungal pathogen reduces leaf function and grain yield of wheat crops.
Powerful insights into hyperaccumulator plants
Combining X-ray techniques brings insights
Distinguished researchers who use synchrotron techniques recognised
You are what you eat
Cracking the code for crop nutrition and food quality with X-ray fluorescence microscopy.
Role at ANSTO
Aboriginal ochre art under high-tech ‘hands-off’ focus to map culture trail
Australian Synchrotron supports important palaeological cave art study in Borneo
Powder diffraction and X-ray fluorescence microscopy support investigation of pigments in rock art.
X-ray fluorescence microscopy
The X-ray fluorescence microspectroscopy beamline offers a range of x-ray absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy techniques at submicron length-scales. The beamline has two microscopes optimised for complementary studies.
Synchrotron light reveals secrets of mystery McCubbin
Synchrotron techniques reveal amount of carbon captured in microscopic seams of deep-sea limestone
A collaboration of Australian scientists has used ANSTO’s Australian Synchrotron to measure the amount of carbon that is captured in microscopic seams of deep-sea limestone, which acts as a carbon sink.
Synchrotron techniques powerful tool to reveal inner workings of volcanoes
An article in Nature Geosciences has highlighted the power of synchrotron techniques to reveal the inner workings of volcanic systems that could potentially help with predictions of eruptions.
Seabird feathers
Advanced imaging reveals unusual, unseen patterns in seabird feathers.
Analysis of fingermarks with synchrotron techniques provide new insights
A new study by researchers from Curtin University using the infrared (IR) and X-ray fluorescence microscopy (XFM) beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron has provided a better understanding of the chemical and elemental composition of latent fingermarks.
Role at ANSTO
Australian researchers reveal how the immune system’s ‘friendly fire’ can turn malaria deadly
Ned Kelly mysteries finally unravelled
ANSTO contributes to funded ARC Discovery and Linkage projects
Enhancing safety of trailer trucks among research projects
Beamtime Guide, Technical Info and Updates - MX1 & MX2
The Macromolecular Crystallography beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron (MX1 and MX2) are general purpose crystallography instruments for determining chemical and biological structures.