Gehan Abdelghany

Gehan Abdelghany

PhD student

Gehan Abdelghany is a PhD student in the field of agronomy in the College of Engineering, IT, and Environment at CDU. She was awarded a Research Training Program (RTP) PhD Scholarship, commencing her PhD on 31 March 2020. The expected end date for her PhD will be 29 September 2024. Ms Abdelghany was Assistant Lecturer in the Botany Department, part of the Faculty of Science at Tanta University in Egypt. She has a Bachelor of Botany (Egypt) and a Master of Plant Ecology (Egypt). In Egypt, Ms Abdelghanty was also involved in teaching-related activities for undergraduate students. Her Masters thesis investigated nutrient cycling and phytoremediation efficiency in wild giant shrub Pluchea dioscoridis in the Nile Delta region of Egypt. Ms Abdelghany’s major research interests are plant population ecology, phytoremediation, plant responses to stresses, and agronomy. For more information on Gehan Abdelghany and her PhD project, click here.

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Commercialisation of native rice for Indigenous enterprise development: agronomy and value-adding

The project aims to lay the foundations for commercialisation of Australian native rice as a high-value, low-volume, culturally-identified, nutritious food, especially for tourism, gourmet food, restaurant markets and value-added products.

PhD progress report: Gehan Abdelghany, ‘Commercialising native rice’ project

Darwin-based FFS PhD scholar Gehan Abdelghany's research is contributing valuable agronomic information to the FFS-backed ‘Commercialising native rice’ project.

Australian native rice is one step closer to appearing on restaurant menus

Putting Australian native rice on our plates and in restaurants is one step closer after a successful harvest of three species sourced from Northern Australian wetlands.

Meet Sean Bellairs: native grains and site regeneration expert

Charles Darwin University's Dr Sean Bellairs is a specialist in site revegetation and in breeding and establishing plants indigenous to Australia's north. He's also the research lead on the CRC's four-year, multi-partner 'Native rice commercialisation' project.

Northern Australia’s native rice: ripe for commercialisation

In stage 1 of this multi-year collaboration, two CRC partner universities, NT Government and three First Nations enterprises have joined forces to collect, analyse and develop protocols for the world's first broadacre plantings of native wild rice in Northern Australia.

Gehan Abdelghany, PhD student: Developing agronomic protocols for the cultivation of Australian wild Oryza species in Northern Australia

For Egyptian academic Gehan Abdelghany, who’s spent much of her career to date finding beneficial uses of indigenous plant species, undertaking a PhD with the FFS-backed ‘Commercialising native rice’ project was a natural progression.

Commercialising native rice for Indigenous enterprise development: agronomy and value-adding

A four-year, multi-disciplinary project under the CRC’s Research Program 1 will help ‘prepare the ground’ for commercialising Australian native rice, at same time creating new opportunities for indigenous enterprise.
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