Dr Daniel Waters PhD(SCU) Rice quality is controlled in large part by genetics. Dan is working with rice breeders to develop further our understanding of the genetic control of rice quality. By finding the genes which control quality we will be able to breed new high quality rice varieties more quickly and efficiently.
Journal articles
Phospholipids in rice: significance in grain quality and health benefits: a review (with Lei Liu, Terry J. Rose, Jinsong Bao, and Graham J. King), Food Chemistry (2013)
Phospholipids (PLs) are a major class of lipid in rice grain. Although PLs are only...
Analysis of adaptive ribosomal gene diversity in wild plant populations from contrasting climatic environments (with Frances M. Shapter, Tim L. Fitzgerald, Stuart McDonald, Ian H. Chivers, Eviatar Nevo, and Robert J. Henry), Plant Signaling and Behavior (2012)
Plant populations may contain variation that reflects adaptation to local environmental conditions. Clues to adaptive...
Analysis of starch gene diversity in the wild relatives of Oryza sativa (with Shabana Kasem and Robert J. Henry), Tropical Plant Biology (2012)
Genetic loci influencing traits important to humans have been selected during crop domestication. The starch...
Application of large-scale sequencing to marker discovery in plants (with Robert J. Henry, Mark Edwards, Gopala Krishnan S, Peter Bundock, Timothy R. Sexton, Ardashir K. Masouley, Catherine J. Nock, and Julie Pattemore), Journal of Biosciences (2012)
Advances in DNA sequencing provide tools for efficient large-scale discovery of markers for use in...
Chloroplast genome sequence confirms distinctness of Australian and Asian wild rice (with Catherine J. Nock, Nicole Rice, Ryuji Ishikawa, and Robert J. Henry), Ecology and Evolution (2012)
Cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) is an AA genome Oryza species that was most likely domesticated...
Book chapters
Genotyping by allele specific PCR (with Peter C. Bundock and Robert J. Henry), Plant genotyping II: SNP technology (2008)
Conference publications
BADH genes in wheat and their expression (with Keshav N. Shrestha and Nicole Rice), Plant and Animal Genome XIX Conference (2011)
Betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (BADH) is important enzyme which plays a dual role in cereals. It...
Chloroplast genome sequence indicates Australian wild rice represents a source of diversity for rice improvement (with Robert J. Henry, Catherine J. Nock, Nicole Rice, Stirling G. Bowen, and R Ishikawa), Plant and Animal Genome XIX Conference (2011)
Rice (Oryza sativa Japonica) was probably domesticated from wild populations of Oryza rufipogon in Asia....
Long range PCR, deep parallel sequencing and multiplexed Maldi-TOF mass spectrometry reveals new SNP variants associated with starch functional properties (with Ardashir K. Masouleh, Russell F. Reinke, and Robert J. Henry), 15th Australian Barley Technical Symposium: Barley for business (2011)
The barley genome sequence will be available soon, allowing barley to follow the rice model...
Plant DNA barcoding using chloroplast genome sequences (with Catherine J. Nock, Mervyn Shepherd, Peter C. Bundock, and Robert J. Henry), IBC XVIII International Botanical Congress (2011)
Chloroplast DNA sequence data have played a critical role in the development of plant DNA...
Whole organelle genomes from total plant DNA sequencing (with Catherine J. Nock, Mervyn Shepherd, Peter C. Bundock, and Robert J. Henry), Southern Cross Plant Science research papers (2011)
Short gun sequencing of whole plant DNA preparations provides short reads that includes good coverage...