ILLUMINATA Ep. #20 Dr Millicent Smith is a plant physiologist with expertise in legume crops. Now she is a Lecturer in Crop Physiology at the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland. Typically working at the whole plant or crop level, her research is focused on understanding the above- and below-ground mechanisms that underpin adaptation to abiotic stress and the impacts of changing resource availability on yield and seed nutrient content. Millicent has extensive experience developing and applying novel chemical, isotopic and physiological phenotyping techniques and technologies across scales from lab to field.