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Megan Ryan undertakes research in a broad range of areas related to the development of sustainable farming systems, focusing particularly on annual pasture legumes. Key interests include phosphorus nutrition in crops and pastures, rhizosphere processes, root morphology, and root physiology. With 30 years of experience, Ryan has researched the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in agricultural systems, leading to the unexpected discovery that AMF are monophyletic, rather than the previously understood taxa present across Glomeromycotina (G-AMF) and Mucoromycotina (M-AMF). Her work has demonstrated the prevalence of M-AMF in southern Australian agricultural systems. Currently, she is involved in projects focusing on M-AMF, engineering new methods to harvest subterranean clover seeds, and the physiology of abiotic stress tolerance in subterranean clover. Ryan plays a key role in the Annual Legume Breeding Australia (ALBA) Joint Venture and leads the Agriculture Department at the University of Western Australia's School of Agriculture and Environment.
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