Person

Munns, Rana Ellen

Occupation: Botanist, Plant breeder and Plant physiologist

Summary

Dr Rana Ellen Munns is an internationally renowned plant scientist with specialist knowledge in the science of crop adaptation to drought and salinity. She joined the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry in 1981 and in 2011 is Chief Research Scientist there.

Details

Chronology

2007: Award - Elected member of the Australian Academy of Science

Related Corporate Bodies

CSIR/O Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1929 - c. 2014)

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17517252. Details
'Munns, Rana Ellen', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1508865. Details

Resource Sections

Ward, C., 'Rana Ellen Munns', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Munns-Rana-Ellen. Details

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