For the past two decades, Lars’ research interests have centred on investigating the mechanisms of plant resistance to biotic stresses from diseases and pests and legume genomics. At CCDM Lars is a research group leader, focusing on diseases of canola and pulses. In addition, he is one of the partners in the ARC Hub for Sustainable Crop Protection and recently completed a project on broadening the genetic diversity of chickpeas through the introgression of germplasm from wild relatives.
At CSIRO Agriculture and Food he is a member of the Legume Genomics team, in Perth, Western Australia, where he leads a pre-breeding research project on narrow-leafed lupin crop improvement.