Ms Frances Eliott BA(NE) Frances is part of CRC for Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology and is working on the development of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) markers as a tool for sugarcane genotyping and genome analysis. In previous work at the Centre, Frances was involved in the CRC for Sustainable Forestry working on hybrid pine verification and identifying candidate genes for wood quality. In addition to her work in the CRC, Frances is a PhD candidate working on the reproductive biology and genetic distinction in the plant genus Davidsonia (Cunoniaceae). Her studies aim to analyse the phylogenetic relationship between the 3 species in the genus, and also to elucidate the genetic diversity within and between populations of the 2 endangered species D. jerseyana and D. johnsonii.
Journal articles
Targeted single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery in a highly polyploid plant species using 454 sequencing (with Peter C. Bundock, Gary A. Ablett, Adam D. Benson, Rosanne E. Casu, Karen S. Aitken, and Robert J. Henry), Plant Biotechnology Journal (2009)
Discovering single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in specific genes in a heterozygous polyploid plant species, such...
An optimised ecotilling protocol for polyploids or pooled samples using a capillary electrophoresis system (with Giovanni M. Cordeiro and Robert J. Henry), Analytical Biochemistry (2006)
Characterisation of single nucleotide polymorphisms in sugarcane EST’s (with Giovanni M. Cordeiro, C Lynne McIntyre, Rosanne E. Casu, and Robert J. Henry), Theoretical and Applied Genetics (2006)
Commercial sugarcane cultivars (Saccharum spp. hybrids) are both polyploid and aneuploid with chromosome numbers in...
The identification and characterization of alleles of sucrose phosphate synthase gene family III in sugarcane (with C Lynne McIntyre, Mark Jackson, Giovanni M. Cordeiro, Ouzi Amouyal, Robert J. Henry, Rosanne E. Casu, S Hermann, and Karen S. Aitken), Molecular Breeding (2006)
Little is known about the extent of allelic diversity of genes in the complex polyploid,...
Verification of interspecific pine hybrids using paternally inherited chloroplast microsatellites (with Mervyn J. Shepherd and Robert J. Henry), Forest Genetics (2006)
Pollen contamination continues to be a problem for many operational controlled-pollination programs for hybrid trees....
Book chapters
SNP discovery by ecotilling using capillary electrophoresis (with Giovanni M. Cordeiro, Peter C. Bundock, and Robert J. Henry), Plant genotyping II: SNP technology (2008)
Sugarcane (with Giovanni M. Cordeiro, Ouzi Amouyal, and Robert J. Henry), Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops (Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants) (2007)
Conference publications
Comparative mapping of a sugarcane genetic map to the sorghum genome (with Karen S. Aitken, Meredith D. McNeil, Scott Hermann, Peter C. Bundock, Katarzyna Heller-Uszynska, Andrzej Kilian, Robert J. Henry, and Philip Jackson), 14th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference (APBC) held in conjunction with the 11th Society for the Advancement of Breeding Research in Asia and Oceania (SABRAO) Congress (2009)
Discovering SNPs for gene mapping in sugarcane using deep sequencing (with Peter C. Bundock, Gary A. Ablett, Adam D. Benson, Rosanne E. Casu, Karen S. Aitken, and Robert J. Henry), Plant and Animal Genomes XVII Conference (2009)
As part of a marker program for QTL discovery, 313 sugarcane genes were targeted for...
Discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms in sugarcane for gene mapping using 454 sequencing (with Peter C. Bundock, Gary A. Ablett, Adam D. Benson, Stirling Bowen, and Robert J. Henry), High-Throughput Genomic Technologies: the 9th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Microarray and Associated Technologies Association (AMATA) (2009)
Sugarcane is genetically complex due to polyploidy, aneuploidy and hybridisation which have led to a...
High through put discovery and analysis of genetic markers in sugarcane (with Peter C. Bundock, Stirling Bowen, and Robert J. Henry), 14th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference (APBC) held in conjunction with the 11th Society for the Advancement of Breeding Research in Asia and Oceania (SABRAO) Congress (2009)
Using Mass Spectrometry (Sequenom MALDI-TOF) to genotype sugarcane (with Peter C. Bundock, Peter Eggler, Stirling Bowen, and Robert J. Henry), Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists (ASSCT) Conference, 29 April - 2 May (2008)
DNA markers of various kinds (AFLPs, SSRs, SNPs etc.) are being used for many crop...