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William (Tam) Salter is a Lecturer in Crop Physiology at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences and the Sydney Institute of Agriculture at the University of Sydney. Based at the University’s expansive field research station in Narrabri, northern NSW, he runs a plant physiology phenotyping research group within the International Centre of Crop and Digital Agriculture. Tam's research group focuses on how plants overcome challenging environmental conditions and identify traits that could be useful for future food security and ecosystem resilience. A major component of his recent work is the development of new tools for research in agriculture, including measuring plant light use, canopy architecture traits, and physiological traits related to photosynthesis and respiration. The overarching goal of Tam's research is to understand and improve the productivity of crop plants, with a key focus on boosting photosynthesis as a target for the green revolution while efficiently using the plant’s available resources, particularly under critical conditions such as climate change. Tam's group currently works with wheat and chickpea, vital crops grown in northern NSW, and emphasizes the development of novel methods for measuring plant traits, with particular interest in open-source sensors and data analytic pipelines.
University of Sydney • Narrabri, NSW
Lecturer in Crop Physiology, focusing on plant physiology and agriculture research.
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