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Plant Scientists at UQ are committed to generating improved crop
species to help Australian farmers meet the ever increasing demand
for high yielding and high quality fruits, grains and vegetables.
The success of this reseach has resulted from collaborative efforts
that draw upon the skills of researchers in a number of fields
including: plant breeding, crop modelling and molecular biology.
Crop improvement researchers:
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| AITKEN, Karen | Sugarcane breeding |
| ADKINS, Steve | Plant and Seed Physiology, Weed Science, Agricultural biotechnology |
| BASFORD, Kaye | Theory and application of pattern analysis |
| BASNAYAKE, Jayampathi | Plant breeding, and plant adaptation to environmental stress |
| BIRCH, Colin | Crop agronomy, Crop adaptation, growth and development nutrition |
| BIRCH, Robert | Plant molecular improvement |
| BONNETT, Graham | Sugarcane improvement. Ecology and reproductive biology of sugarcane |
| BOTELLA, Jimmy | Ecological Biotechnology, genetic engineering, molecular biology and signal transduction in plants |
| CASU, Rosanne | Sugarcane improvement. Bioinformatics |
| CHAPMAN, Scott | Crop and plant physiology, plant breeding, quantitative genetics, crop/climate interactions |
| DALZELL, Scott | Tropical pasture agronomy, forage quality & anti-nutritive factors |
| DART, Peter | Sustainable agroforestry systems |
| DeLACY, Ian | Plant adaption to stress and crop improvement |
| DIETERS, Mark | Agroforestry, abiotic stress physiology, crop improvement |
| DRECCER, Fernanda | Abiotic stress and crop improvement |
| FUKAI, Shu | Crop Physiology and abiotic stress physiology |
| GEORGE, Doug | Crop improvement |
| GIDLEY, Michael | Nutritional benefits of plant-based foods |
| GILBERT, Bob | Emulsion polymerization, starch structure and nutrition |
| GODWIN, Ian | Molecular plant improvement and molecular genetics. |
| GRESSHOFF, Peter | Functional genomics and molecular physiology of root nodules |
| GROF, Christopher | Metabolic steps underpinning sucrose accumulation in sugarcane |
| HAMMER, Graeme | Crop ecophysiology, modelling and crop improvement |
| HOLTON, Timothy | Genetics & functional genomics, gene discovery in tropical fruits and grasses, plant seconday metabolites |
| JACKSON, Phillip | Sugarcane improvement (better yield, adaptation to adverse environments, and increased sucrose content) |
| JAMES, Andrew | Soybean improvement breeding program |
| JOHNSTON, Margaret | Domestication of Australian plants with export floriculture potential |
| KOPITTKE, Peter | Plant tolerance to heavy metal and saline environments |
| LAMBRIDES, Christopher | Molecular plant improvement, abiotic and biotic stress resistance/tolerance in crops |
| McINTYRE, Lynne | Molecular genetic basis of key traits for wheat and sugarcane improvement |
| RAE, Anne | Development of tools for tissue-specific and subcellular targeting |
| SCHENK, Peer | Plant functional genomics, plant cell signalling and physiology, molecular plant-microbe interactions and biodiscovery |
| SCHMIDT, Adele | Macadamia improvement |
| SCHMIDT, Susanne | Ecophysiology of Australian Plants and Ecosystems |
| STEADMAN, Kathryn | Drug discovery and delivery, biology and chemistry of plant seeds and fruits |
| van OOSTEROM, Erik | Physiological basis for crop adaptation to abiotic stress |
| WEHR, Bernard | Plant growth in adverse environmental conditions, plant root biology |
| WILLIAMS, Richard | Physiology of plant growth and development in vitro, and its application for plant improvement |
| XUE, Gang-Ping | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of drought stress in wheat |
The following UQ Plant Sciences industry partners are also deeply
commited to Crop Improvement:
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