School of Plant Biology

Current postgraduates

• Abd Manan, Fazilah - Identification and Characterization of Mitochondrial DNA Binding Proteins During Mitochondrial Biogenesis Under Normal and Stress Condition
• Abu Rumman, Ghazi - Understanding salt and water dynamics to enhance the quality of turfgrasses irrigated with saline water in a Mediterranean environment: An evaluation of four species.
• Bazihizina, Nadia - Root-zone salt dynamics, water use, and water redistribution by Atriplex spp. on saline land
• Benigno, Stephen - Ecophysiological Adaptations of Keystone Banksia Woodland Species to Drought and Soil Compaction Stresses in Post-Minesite Restoration
• Bennett, Richard - Evaluation and selection of Australian Cullen species for perennial pasture legumes in Western Australia
• Bougoure, Jeremy - The role of mycorrhizal fungi in nutrient supply and habitat specificity of the rare myco-heterotrophic underground orchid, Rhizanthella gardneri Rogers
• Bradbury, Eli - Linking vegetation and plant functional types to site ecohydrology: Telfer Region of the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia
• Bradbury, Donna - Population Genomics to detect adaptive genetic variation and its utility for the conservation of Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala D.C.)
• Brown, Eloise - Flow structure in submerged kelp canopies on a fringing limestone reef
• Bundock, Mark - A study into the biophysical effects of herbicides and adjuvants used in bushland management activities, on plant species native and invasive to Western Australia.
• Chai, Tsun-Thai - The Role of Alternative Oxidase in Plant Growth and Development
• Chen, Weihua - Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of Phosphate Transport in Arabidopsis
• Commander, Lucy - IA program to research and develop integrated restoration of borrow pits for Shark Bay Saltt
• Cruz Rodrigues de Campos, Mariana - Phosphorus-acquisition and phosphorus-remobilisation strategies of native plants on sandplains in Western Australia (kwongan) and eastern Brazil (cerrado)
• Delacy, Caine - Reef fish community structure and dynamics: response to human disturbance
• Golos, Peter - Restoration of diverse vegetation cover to waste rock dumps at Telfer Gold Mine: Topsoil management and plant establishment
• Grigg, Alasdair - An ecophysiological approach to the restoration of an arid zone mine site: A case study in the Great Sandy Desert
• Grose, Peter - Optimisation of soil stabilisation through mulching, revegetation and weed control systems in a region with a Mediterranean climate
• Gusmao, Marcal - Adaptation of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus cv. Ceora) to marginal environments: performance under conditions of drought and low phosphorus availability
• Hassiotou, Foteini - Photosynthesis and carbon dioxide diffusion within sclerophylls – a comparative study of structure and function
• Hendrati, Rina - Breeding and Deployment Systems for Eucalyptus occidentalis Endl.
• Javahar, Rachel - Physiological and Anatomical Responses in Rice Roots to Combined Waterlogging and Salinity Stress
• Mason, Annaliese - Abnormal meiosis and unreduced gamete production in Brassica interspecific hybrids
• McIntyre, Rebecca - Soil biogeochemistry and flooding in intermittent streams of the semi-arid Pilbara region
• Mitchell, Patrick - Characterising hydraulic functional types in species-rich communities of the central wheatbelt, Western Australia
• Moore, Cordelia - The spatial ecology of demersal fish at Cape Howe Marine National Park
• Nicol, Dion - Agronomic and ecophysiological studies of Cullen cinereum and C. graveolens as potential pasture legumes in low rainfall regions of the southern Australian wheatbelt.
• Norris, Jaymie - Microbial clues for ecologically sustainable management of fire-prone landscapes
• Ooi Lean Sim, Jillian - The role of sedimentary environments in driving tropical seagrass landscape patterns
• Page, Gerald - Mulga ecology and applications to site restoration at West Angelas, Pilbara
• Pekin, Burak - Productivity and diversity patterns in relation to fire history of the southern jarrah forest
• Raffi, Sharif-Ar - Physiology and genetics of salinity and waterlogging tolerance in Hordeum marinum and H. marinum x wheat cytogenetic stocks
• Rich, Sarah - Aquatic adventitious roots – function and significance for plant survival during flooding
• Rodriguez, Caren - Role of miRNAs in long-distance signalling in plants
• Ruoss, Sacha - Restoration and Conservation of Rare Endemic Banded Ironstone Plants in an Arid Biodiversity Hotspot
• Scanlon, Timothy - Decline in Subterranean Clover-Based Pastures in Western Australia: Causes & Solutions
• Shanmugam, Sanjutha - Are cluster root structures and exudation patterns optimised for phosphorus acquisition? – A computer simulation modelling approach
• Trueman, Mandy - Towards effective management of degraded ecosystems in the highlands of Galapagos
• Tuckett, Renee - Biogeography and seed biology of vernal pool species in Western Australia

Graduated students

• Abdo, David - Maintenance and structuring of two temperate Haliclonid sponge populations
• Abe, Hitofumi - Forest management impacts on growth, diversity and nutrient cycling of lowland tropical rainforest and plantations, Papua New Guinea
• Beeck, Cameron - Simultaneous improvement in black spot resistance and stem strength in field pea (Pisum sativum L.)
• Bell, Lindsay - Prospects of Dorycnium species to increase water use in agricultural systems of southern Australia
• Biddulph, Ben - Mechanisms of dormancy, preharvest sprouting tolerance and how they are influenced by the environment during grain filling and maturation in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
• Biggs, Louise - Ecology of Bryophytes in Bold Park, Perth, Western Australia
• Danehloueipour, Nader - The use of annual wild Cicer species to enhance chickpea germplasm
• Farrell, Claire - Leaf-litter and microsite on seedling recruitment in an alley-planted E. sargentii and Atriplex spp. saline agricultural system
• George, Nicholas - Koojong (Acacia saligna), a species with potential as a perennial forage for dryland salinity management : genetic variation, feed quality and reproductive biology
• Heliyanto, Bambang - The ecological genetic consequences of local endemism and natural population fragmentation in Banksia ilicifolia (Proteaceae)
• Jones, Christopher - The best of Santalum album: essential oil composition, biosynthesis and genetic diversity in the Australian tropical sandalwood collection
• Kilminster, Kieryn - Biogeochemical constraints on the growth and nutrition of the seagrass Halophila ovalis in the Swan River Estuary
• Liu, Hui - Interspecific hybridization in Leucadendron: capacity building and phylogenetic insights
• Michael, Pippa - Agro-ecology of Malva parviflora (small-flowered mallow) in the Mediterranean-climatic agricultural region of Western Australia
• Muhammad Nasar-Abbas, Syed - Investigation of environmental staining and storage on discolouration and cooking quality in Faba bean (Vicia faba L.)
• Naveed Aslam, Muhammad - Inheritance and molecular markers for high oleic and low linolenic acids in canola (Brassica napus) and impact of genotype and environment on these traits
• Pearse, Stuart - Carboxylates in the rhizosphere of canola, wheat, lupins and pulses: their role in P acquisition from sparingly soluble forms
• Pharmawati, Made - DNA-based approaches for development of markers to assist Grevillea and Leucadendron breeding
• Teakle, Natasha - Physiological and molecular basis of salt tolerance in Lotus glaber, a new perennial pasture legume for saline areas
• Toohey, Benjamin - Recovery of algal assemblages from canopy disturbance: patterns and processes over a range of reef structures
• Watson, Dianne - Use of underwater stereo-video to measure fish assemblage structure, spatial distribution of fishes and change in assemblages with protection from fishing
• Wijayanto, Teguh - Genetic manipulation of programmed cell death (PCD) for reduced susceptibility to necrotrophic fungi in narrow-leafed lupin (Lupinus angustifolius)
• Wisdom, Joanne - Source-sink relationships and variation at two spatial scales in compositional quality of fruit of Vitis vinifera (L. cv Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon).
• ayu Astarin, Ida - Molecular investigation of genetic variation to improve uniformity of cauliflower production