School of Plant Biology

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Current postgraduates

• Ahmad, Arbab - Stemphylium grey leaf spot disease of lupins in Western Australia
• Al Harby, Hesham - Salt accumulation in the root zone of Atriplex nummularia
• Alamri, Saud - Physiological and genetic basis of salt and waterlogging tolerance in Hordeum marinum accessions, wheat and their amphiploids
• Allen, Christine - Factors that affect seedling establishment and their implications for the translocation of species at risk of extinction
• Anderson, Benjamin - Diversity in the Triodia basedowii E.Pritz. species complex and its implications for the evolution of the Australian arid zone biota
• Annisa, Annisa - Genetic diversity and heat tolerance in oilseed Brassica rapa
• Argus (nee Loh), Rachel - Waterlogging and salinity tolerance in riparian and floodplain trees and shrubs in the Pilbara region
• Bennett, Scott - Ecological drivers and the functional role of seaweed canopy structure along a climatic gradient
• Bennett, Richard - Evaluation and selection of Australian Cullen species for perennial pasture legumes in Western Australia
• Bergmann, Max - The role of potassium to improve growth, water use and yield of canola under varying soil water conditions
• Borges Osorio, Marina - How does phosphite protect plants against Phytophthora cinnamomi?
• 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.
• Chia, Kerryn - Germination Biology of Persoonia longifolia
• Cure, Katherine - Population ecology and genetic diversity of endemic tuskfishes in Western Australia: an investigation of biogeography and evolution
• Davies, Tegan - Carbon dynamics in mangrove sediments of northern and western Australia.
• De Almeida, Luis - Screening beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) for cold tolerance
• Dias De Oliveira, Eduardo - Adaptation of wheat to climate change in south-western Australia
• Fang, Xiangling - Characterization and management of the fungal and oomycete pathogens associated with crown and root diseases of strawberry in Western Australia
• Ferguson, Adrian - Quantifying ecosystem function in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): grazing by herbivorous fishes on temperate rocky reefs
• Ford, Benjamin - Community and functional ecology of Western Australian fishes: relations to latitude and habitat
• Fraser, Matthew - The role of sedimentary organic phosphorus in P supply to seagrass meadows of oligotrophic, coastal embayments
• Garibello, Juan - The influence of nutrient availability, time of emergence and other plant traits on the competitive ability of Banksia woodland species with Ehrharta calycina during early growth.
• Goetze, Jordan - Effects of tabu harvest duration and intensity on the protection of Fijian fish populations
• Golos, Peter - Restoration of diverse vegetation cover to waste rock dumps at Telfer Gold Mine: Topsoil management and plant establishment
• Gong, Xue - Fine mapping the centromeric region of barley chromosome 5H (5HC) for seed dormancy and malting quality
• Grose, Peter - Optimisation of soil stabilisation through mulching, revegetation and weed control systems in a region with a Mediterranean climate
• Guo, Yiming - An efficient screening protocol for evaluating the drought tolerance in Brassica rapa: towards genomic selection
• Hamer, Jason - Keeping up with climate change: assessing the vulnerability of south-west Australian Eucalyptus species to a changing climate.
• Hoy (nee Bradbury), Eli - Linking vegetation and plant functional types to site ecohydrology: Telfer Region of the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia
• Iqbal, Muhammad Munir - Genetics of adaptation of yellow lupins to dryland conditions
• Jalaludin, Adam - Glufosinate-resistance Mechanism in Malaysian Goosegrass biotypes
• Johnson, Bridget - Restoration of plant-pollinator networks in a degraded agricultural landscape: the role of targeted restoration plantings, non-native plants and landscape structure.
• Jones, Stewart - A Study of Unique Secondary Metabolites in Australian Perennial Pasture Plants
• Khan, Hammad - Exploring mechanisms of salinity tolerance, and interactions of salinity with waterlogging, in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
• Lindfield, Steven - Coral reef fish communities across gradients of fishing pressure and depth; implications for management and sampling techniques
• McLean, Elizabeth - Spatial and temporal patterns of water use by the riparian tree Melaleuca argentea in the Pilbara region of NW Australia
• Mohring, Margaret - Spatial and temporal variation in reproductive timing, and juvenile growth, of the kelp Ecklonia radiata
• Moniodis, Jessie - The genetic diversity, essential oil composition and physiological factors controlling the biosynthesis of sesquiterpenoids in Western Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum)
• Mubarak, Aidilla - Polyphenol antioxidants as the nexus between fruit quality and human dietary health
• Nazeri, Nazanin K. - Role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in P uptake by summer-active perennial pasture legumes
• 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.
• Nikabadi, Shahab - Understanding the Ecophysiology of Trophic Transition of Micropropagated Terrestrial Orchids for Improving Restoration Success
• Page, Gerald - Mulga ecology and applications to site restoration at West Angelas, Pilbara
• Radomiljac, Jordan - Relationship of Carbohydrate Metabolism and Partitioning to the Phenology of Subtropical-grown Grapevines
• Raffi, Sharif-Ar - Physiology and genetics of salinity and waterlogging tolerance in Hordeum marinum and H. marinum x wheat cytogenetic stocks
• Rahman, Md Mahmudur - Biofortification of Lentil with Selenium
• Raiter, Keren - Ecology, mining and offsets: balancing ecological integrity and economic prosperity in the Great Western Woodlands of Western Australia
• Ren, Fei - Fine mapping and near isogenic line (NIL) development of yellow spot resistance in wheat
• Ribalta, Federico - Generation of homozygosity and genome fixation in field pea
• Rouillard, Alexandra - Reconstructing extreme hydroclimatic variability in semiarid northwest Australia
• Ruoss, Sacha - Restoration and Conservation of Rare Endemic Banded Ironstone Plants in an Arid Biodiversity Hotspot
• Santana Garcon, Julia - The development and validation of a mid-water baited video technique for investigating spatial patterns and human impacts on pelagic fishes
• Saradadevi, Renu - Does ABA-mediated stomatal response results in better yield performance under drought?
• Sheng Goh, Sou - Quantifying the impact of glyphosate resistance genes on Echinochloa colona (Junglerice) ecological performance
• Shi, Mingren - Individual-based modelling of population dynamics and evolution of resistance to phosphine in lesser grain borer
• Siebers, Andre - Biogeochemical links between streams and terrestrial ecosystems in the Pilbara, Western Australia
• Thomas, Luke - Resilience of a High Latitude Coral Reef System
• Triska, Maggie - Modeling Fauna Populations in a Production Landscape
• Trudgen, Melinda - Street trees and climate change: the invasive potential of rosewood
• Trueman, Mandy - Towards effective management of degraded ecosystems in the highlands of Galapagos
• Uloth, Margaret - Sources and mechanisms of host resistance in vegetable Brassica germplasm to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
• Waddell, Heidi - Phosphorus-use efficiency of Austrodanthonia species: understanding the morphological and physiological mechanisms that confer efficiency.
• Whitehead, Sam - Halophila stipulacea Seasonal Growth Patterns and Response to Transplantation in Qatar
• Williams, Anna - Conservation genetics of mid-west Western Australian Acacia species using whole-genome sequencing
• Winkel, Anders - The influence of leaf gas films on submergence tolerance of terrestrial plants
• Zemunik, Graham - Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies along soil-age gradients in ancient, infertile landscapes

Graduated students

• Abd Manan (2012), Fazilah - Arabidopsis thaliana cell suspension culture as a model system to understand plant responses under phosphate stress.
• 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
• Abu Rumman (2012), Ghazi - Ecophysiology of salinity tolerance in three halophytic turfgrasses
• Arpiwi (2013), Ni Luh - Millettia pinnata (L.) Panigrahi a biodiesel trees, characterisation of traits for production on marginal land.
• Bazihizina (2011), Nadia - Responses of the halophyte Atriplex nummularia to non-uniform salinities in the root-zone
• 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
• Benigno (2012), Stephen - Restoration in a postmine environment: using ecophysiological techniques to improve the establishment of framework Banksia woodland seedlings
• 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
• Bougoure, Jeremy - The role of mycorrhizal fungi in nutrient supply and habitat specificity of the rare myco-heterotrophic underground orchid, Rhizanthella gardneri Rogers
• Bradbury (2013), Donna - Conservation and restoration of genetic diversity in Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala DC): using novel genomic tools to understand local adaptation
• Bustam, Betty - Micropropagation and Cryopreservation of Drakaea spp. Endemic Western Australian Orchid
• Chai, Tsun-Thai - A GmAOX2b antisense gene suppresses growth and reproductive development in soybean (Glycine max L).
• 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 (2012), Mariana - Phosphorus-acquisition and phosphorus-conservation mechanisms of plants native to south-western Australian or to Brazilian rupestrian fields
• Danehloueipour, Nader - The use of annual wild Cicer species to enhance chickpea germplasm
• Delacy, Caine - Reef fish community structure and dynamics: response to human disturbance
• Dharmarajan, Roger Jebaraj - Role of Salicylate and Jasmonate in Regulating Antioxidants Qualities in Table Grape – Post harvest
• Estima Ramalho (2012), Cristina - Effects of urbanization on remnant plant communities.
• Farrell, Claire - Leaf-litter and microsite on seedling recruitment in an alley-planted E. sargentii and Atriplex spp. saline agricultural system
• Gaza (2012, Hazel - Molecular dissection of the phosphate signalling network in Arabidopsis thaliana
• George, Nicholas - Koojong (Acacia saligna), a species with potential as a perennial forage for dryland salinity management : genetic variation, feed quality and reproductive biology
• Grigg, Alasdair - An ecophysiological approach to the restoration of an arid zone mine site: A case study in the Great Sandy Desert
• Gusmao (2011), Marcal - Adaptation of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus cv. Ceora) to marginal environments: performance under conditions of drought and low phosphorus availability
• Hallett (2011), Lauren - Ecological filters to seedling establishment for restoration in a Mediterranean climate
• Hassiotou, Foteini - Photosynthesis and carbon dioxide diffusion within sclerophylls – a comparative study of structure and function
• Heliyanto, Bambang - The ecological genetic consequences of local endemism and natural population fragmentation in Banksia ilicifolia (Proteaceae)
• Hendrati, Rina - Breeding and Deployment Systems for Eucalyptus occidentalis Endl.
• 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
• Mason (2011), Annaliese - Meiotic behaviour and chromosome inheritance in interspecific hybrids of allotetraploid Brassica species
• McIntyre, Rebecca - Soil biogeochemistry and flooding in intermittent streams of the semi-arid Pilbara region
• Michael, Pippa - Agro-ecology of Malva parviflora (small-flowered mallow) in the Mediterranean-climatic agricultural region of Western Australia
• 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
• 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
• Nihill (2011), Kimberley - Using hierarchical habitat selection to assist recolonisation of restored forest by Egernia napoleonis
• O'Donnell (2011), Alison - Spatial and temporal patterns of wildfire in semi-arid south-western Australia
• Ooi Lean Sim (2012), Jillian - Pattern and process in the dstribution and abundance of seagrass species in Pulau Tinggi, Malaysia
• Pearse, Stuart - Carboxylates in the rhizosphere of canola, wheat, lupins and pulses: their role in P acquisition from sparingly soluble forms
• Pekin, Burak - Productivity and diversity patterns in relation to fire history of the southern jarrah forest
• Pharmawati, Made - DNA-based approaches for development of markers to assist Grevillea and Leucadendron breeding
• Rich (2011), Sarah - Aquatic adventitious roots: growth and internal 0₂ dynamics during partial and complete submergency of shoots.
• Rodriguez, Caren - Role of miRNAs in long-distance signalling in plants
• Scanlon (2011), Timothy - Decline in subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.)-based pasture systems: causes and solutions.
• Shackelford (2012), Nancy - Management and impact of a native invasive species: Allocasuarina huegeliana in the sandplain heath of the Western Australian Wheatbelt.
• Sharip (2012), Zati - Ecosystem processes controlling macrophyte dominance in Lake Chini, Malaysia
• Sutomo, Sutomo - Plant Succession Following Nuèes Ardentes of Mt. Merapi Volcano, Java Indonesia
• 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
• Tuckett, Renee - Biogeography and seed biology of vernal pool species in Western Australia
• 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