School of Plant Biology

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Greg Cawthray

Mr Greg Cawthray

Senior Research Officer

Contact details

Address School of Plant Biology
The University of Western Australia (M090)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
Phone 6488 1789
Fax 6488 1126

Key research

  • Environmental Analytical Chemistry

Publications

Cawthray, G.R. and Powles, S. (1998). Weed seed infestation of crop seed in WA. Proceedings of the 1998 Crop Updates.

Colmer, T.D., Corradini, F., Cawthray, G.R., and Otte, M.L. (2000): Analysis of Dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP), Betaines and other organic solutes in Plant Tissue Extracts using HPLC. Phytochemical Analysis 11: 163-168

Lambers, H., Shane, M.W., Cawthray, G.R., de Roock, S., De Vos, M., Juniper, D., Hakala, K., Martinez, E., Poot, P., Roelofs, R., Veneklaas, E.J., and Wouterlood, M. (2001): The cluster roots of Australian Proteaceae: A fascinating nutrient-acquiring adaptation. Phytogen 3(1): 4-6

Roelofs, R.F.R., Rengel, Z., Dixon, K.W., Cawthray, G.R., and Lambers, H. (2001): Exudation or carboxylates in Australian Proteaceae: chemical composition. Plant Cell and Environment (2001) 24: 891-904.

Lambers, H., Juniper, D., Cawthray, G.R., Veneklaas, E.J., and Martinez-Ferri, E. (2002): The pattern of carboxylate exudation in Banksia grandis (Proteaceae) is affected by the form of phosphate added to the soil. Plant and Soil 238(1): 111-122.

Shane, M.W., de Vos, M., de Roock, S., Cawthray, G.R. and Lambers, H. (2003) Effects of external phosphorus supply on internal phosphorus concentration and the initiation, growth and exudation of cluster roots in Hakea prostrata R.Br. Plant and Soil 248: 209-219

Veneklaas, E.J., Stevens, J., Cawthray, G.R., Turner, S., Grigg, A.M. and Lambers, H. (2003) Chickpea and white lupin rhizosphere carboxylates vary with soil properties and enhance phosphorus uptake. Plant and Soil 248: 187-197

Cawthray, G.R. (2003): Improved reversed-phase - liquid chromatography method for the analysis of low-molecular-weight organic acids in plant root exudates. J. Chrom A. 1011 (1-2): 233-240

Michael W. Shane, Michael D. Cramer, Sachiko Funayama-Noguchi, Gregory R. Cawthray, A. Harvey Millar, David A. Day, and Hans Lambers (2004): Developmental Physiology of Cluster-Root Carboxylate Synthesis and Exudation in Harsh Hakea. Expression of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase and the Alternative Oxidase. Plant Physiology 135: 549-560

Madeleine Wouterlood, Gregory R. Cawthray, Timothy T. Scanlon, Hans Lambers, and Erik J. Veneklaas (2004) Carboxylate concentrations in the rhizosphere of lateral roots of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) increase during plant development, but are not correlated with phosphorus status of soil or plants. New Phytologist 162: 745-753

Madeleine Wouterlood, Gregory R. Cawthray, Stephen Turner, Hans Lambers, and Erik J. Veneklaas (2004) Rhizosphere carboxylate concentrations of chickpea are affected by genotype and soil type. Plant and Soil 261: 1-10

Pearse, S.J., Veneklaas, E., Cawthray, G., Bolland, M.D.A., and Lambers, H. (2006) Triticum aestivum shows a greater biomass response to a supply of aluminum phosphate than Lupinus albus, despite releasing fewer carboxylates into the rhizosphere.
New Phytologist 169:515-524

B.Heliyanto, S.L. Krauss, H.Lambers, G.R. Cawthray and E.J. Veneklaas. (2006) Increased ecological amplitude through heterosis following wide outcrossing in Banksia ilicifolia R.Br. (Proteaceae) Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 19: 1327-1338

Playsted CW, Johnston ME, Ramage CM, Edwards DG, Cawthray GR, Lambers H (2006) Functional significance of dauciform roots: exudation of carboxylates and acid phosphatase under phosphorus deficiency in Caustis blakei (Cyperaceae). New Phytologist 170(3): 491-500

Michael W. Shane, Gregory R. Cawthray, Michael D. Cramer, John Kuo and Hans Lambers (2006) Specialised ‘dauciform’ roots of Cyperaceae are structurally distinct, but functionally analogous with ‘cluster’ roots. Plant Cell and Environment (in press)

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Plant gas exchange systems; GCMS; HPLC;

Research profile


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