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Novel microsatellite markers for the endangered Australian rainforest tree Davidsonia jerseyana (Cunoniaceae) and cross-species amplification in the Davidsonia genus (with Frances G. Eliott, C Connelly, M Rossetto, Mervyn Shepherd, and Robert J. Henry), Conservation Genetics Resources (2013)

Davidsonia jerseyana is an endangered rainforest tree endemic to far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia....

 

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Chloroplast genome sequence confirms distinctness of Australian and Asian wild rice (with Daniel LE Waters, Catherine J. Nock, 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...

 

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Chloroplast genome sequences from total DNA for plant identification (with Catherine J. Nock, Daniel LE Waters, Mark A. Edwards, Stirling G. Bowen, Giovanni M. Cordeiro, and Robert J. Henry), Plant Biotechnology Journal (2011)

Chloroplast DNA sequence data are a versatile tool for plant identification or barcoding and establishing...

 

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The endosperm morphology of rice and its wild relatives as observed by scanning electron microscopy (with Shabana Kasem, Daniel LE Waters, Frances M. Shapter, and Robert J. Henry), Rice (2011)

While cultivated rice, Oryza sativa, is arguably the world’s most important cereal crop, there is...

 

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Cereal Variety Identification using MALDI-TOF mass spectromertry SNP Genotyping (with Julie A. Pattemore, David F. Marshall, Robbie Waugh, and Robert J. Henry), Journal of Cereal Science (2010)

Correct identification of cereal varieties is important to food quality, safety and authenticity and recently,...

 

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Whole grain morphology of Australian rice species (with Shabana Kasem, Daniel LE Waters, Frances M. Shapter, and Robert J. Henry), Plant Genetic Resources (2010)

The grain morphology of 17 wild rice relatives were studied by light and scanning electron...

 

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Australian Oryza: utility and conservation (with Robert J. Henry, Daniel LE Waters, Shabana Kasem, Ryuji Ishikawa, Yin Hao, Sally L. Dillon, Darren Crayn, Rod A. Wing, and Duncan Vaughan), Rice (2009)

Australian Oryza are an understudied and underexploited genetic resource for rice improvement. Four species are...

 

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Genetic diversity of ICARDA’s worldwide barley landrace collection (with Abderrazek Jilal, Stefania Grando, Robert J. Henry, L Slade Lee, Helen Hill, Michael Baum, and Salvatore Ceccarelli), Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (2008)

Twenty genic- and genomic SSR markers were used to study genetic diversity and geographical differentiation...

 

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Enhancing cell survival of atrazine degrading Rhodococcus erythropolis NI86/21 cells encapsulated in alginate beads (with Tony Vancov, K Jury, L Van Zwieten, and S Morris), Journal of Applied Microbiology (2007)

Aims: To develop a method to produce beads with encapsulated Rhodococcus erythropolis NI86/21 with high...

 

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DNA Banks and their role in facilitating the application of genomics to plant germplasm (with Giovanni M. Cordeiro, Mervyn J. Shepherd, Peter C. Bundock, Louis MT Bradbury, Loraine Watson, Allison C. Crawford, Toni Pacey-Miller, Agnelo Furtado, and Robert J. Henry), Plant Genetic Resources (2006)

Advances in genomics have provided technologies for high throughput analysis of plant genomes with potential...

 

Books

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Research priorities for native species bioenergy crops (with Robert J. Henry), RIRDC (2009)

This report provides a summary of the RIRDC-sponsored one day workshop held on 22 August...

 

Book chapters

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Sorghum (with Anjanabha Bhattacharya, Frances M. Shapter, Sally L. Norton, and Robert J. Henry), Wild crop relatives, genomic and breeding resources, cereals (2011)

Sorghum is an important cereal and fodder crop, which is adaptable to extreme climatic conditions...

 

DNA banks as a resource for SNP genotyping (with Shabana Kasem and Robert J. Henry), Plant genotyping II: SNP technology (2008)
 

DNA extraction from plant tissue (with Shabana Kasem and Robert J. Henry), Plant genotyping II: SNP technology (2008)
 

Conservation of Plant Genes and the Role of DNA Banks, Plant Conservation Genetics (2006)
 

Plant DNA banks: a primary resource for conservation research (with Robert J. Henry and Maurizio Rossetto), DNA banks: providing novel options for genebanks? (2006)
 

Conference publications

BADH genes in wheat and their expression (with Keshav N. Shrestha and Daniel LE Waters), 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, Daniel LE Waters, Catherine J. Nock, 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....

 

Molecular genetic diversity of ICARDA’s worldwide barley landrace collection (with Abderrazek Jilal, Stefania Grando, Robert J. Henry, Michael Baum, and Salvatore Ceccarelli), Plant and Animal Genomes XVIII Conference (2010)

The use of barley grain as a whole grain food or food ingredient through the...

 

Whole genome sequence (WGS) analysis for exploring plant relationships (with Giovanni M. Cordeiro, Catherine J. Nock, Daniel LE Waters, Stirling Bowen, and Robert J. Henry), Plant and Animal Genomes XVIII Conference (2010)

Shotgun sequencing plant genomic DNA preparations generates large quantities of sequence data in a single...

 

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Barley variety identification using DNA (with Peter Portmann and Robert J. Henry), Proceedings of the Agribusiness Crop Update Conference (2009)

Varietal purity is an important commercial driver in the trade of malting barley. Receival standards...

 

Breeding for biofuel traits (with Robert J. Henry and Agnelo Furtado), 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)
 

Genetic variation in starch genes in rice and its wild relatives (with Shabana Kasem, Daniel LE Waters, and Robert J. Henry), Cereals 2009: Proceedings of the 59th Australian Cereal Chemistry Conference (2009)
 

Next generation genotyping (with Robert J. Henry, Peter C. Bundock, Mervyn Shepherd, Stirling Bowen, and Mark A. Edwards), 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)
 

Next-generation sequencing of plant genomes (with Catherine J. Nock, Daniel LE Waters, Peter C. Bundock, Mervyn Shepherd, Stirling Bowen, Mark A. Edwards, and Robert J. Henry), NSW Bioinformatics Research Symposium (2009)
 

DNA repository for wild rice relatives (with G Good and Robert J. Henry), 1st Australian Wild Rice Symposium: Australia, a major centre of diversity for rice (2008)

The conservation of plant genetic resources is important and it is essential that many diverse...

 

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Evaluation of starch granule morphology in wild relatives of rice using scanning electron microscopy (with Shabana Kasem, Daniel LE Waters, and Robert J. Henry), 58th Australian Cereal Chemistry Conference (2008)

Rice grains exhibit unique starch properties and these properties differ among varieties. Starch granule morphology...

 

Grain morphology of wild relatives of Australian rice (with Shabana Kasem, Daniel LE Waters, and Robert J. Henry), 1st Australian Wild Rice Symposium: Australia, a major centre of diversity for rice (2008)

Rice production, exportation and consumption in Australia have increased substantially since 1985. However, unreliable rainfall...

 

Personalised plant genetic analysis (with Daniel LE Waters, Julie A. Pattemore, Peter C. Bundock, Frances G. Eliott, and Robert J. Henry), 58th Australian Cereal Chemistry Conference (2008)

Individual people respond to drugs differently in a genotype dependant manner. One of the key...

 

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Induced plant mutation and molecular analysis as a route to genetic improvement of specific grain quality traits (with L Slade Lee, Liz Izquierdo, Gary A. Ablett, and Robert J. Henry), Proceedings of the 13th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference: Breeding for success : diversity in action (2006)
 

Mining genomes for improved product quality and human nutrition (with Robert J. Henry, Louis MT Bradbury, Peter C. Bundock, Giovanni M. Cordeiro, Michael J. Cross, Allison C. Crawford, Timothy L. Fitzgerald, Liz Izquierdo, Brett G. Kennedy, L Slade Lee, Shane R. McIntosh, Toni Pacey-Miller, Frances M. Shapter, Loraine Watson, Jessica F. White, and Daniel LE Waters), Plant and Animal Genomes Conference XIV (2006)

Analysis of polymorphisms at the SNP level has been facilitated by the development and application...

 

Molecular analysis of induced plant mutations as a route to genetic improvement of specific grain quality traits (with L Slade Lee, Liz Izquierdo, Yihua Chen, Michael J. Cross, and Robert J. Henry), Tropical Crop Biotechnology Conference (2006)
 

Novel uses of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) grain: a genetic approach (with Liz Izquierdo, L Slade Lee, and Robert J. Henry), Proceedings of the 5th Australian Sorghum Conference (2006)
 

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Plant DNA banks and the role in plant genomics (with Loraine Watson and Robert J. Henry), ISPMB 8th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology (2006)
 

SCAMinG an efficient high through put approach to discovery and analysis of SNP for genotyping of agricultural and food species (with Giovanni M. Cordeiro, Daniel LE Waters, Stirling Bowen, Frances G. Eliott, Stephen D. Williams, and Robert J. Henry), Unlocking the Potential of Agricultural Biotechnology, Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference (2006)
 

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SCAMing: an efficient high throughput approach to discovery and analysis of Snps for genotyping of tropical crop species (with Frances G. Eliott, Giovanni M. Cordeiro, James K. Cronin, Daniel LE Waters, Peter C. Bundock, Stirling Bowen, and Robert J. Henry), Tropical Crop Biotechnology Conference (2006)

Model organisms have well established genetic marker tools. However, genotyping of the wide range of...

 

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Targeted mutagenesis in sorghum using an improved high-throughput screening platform – a reverse genetics strategy to complement the sorghum genomics effort (with Michael J. Cross, L Slade Lee, and Robert J. Henry), Plant and Animal Genomes Conference XIV (2006)

As a natural complement to the Sorghum Genomics effort, our group has undertaken a reverse...

 

Targeting induced point mutations in specific genes in sorghum (with Michael J. Cross, L Slade Lee, Liz Izquierdo, and Robert J. Henry), Proceedings of 5th Australian Sorghum Conference, Gold Coast, Qld., 30 January-3 February (2006)
 

The role of biobanking as a tool for plant breeding (with L Slade Lee and Robert J. Henry), Proceedings of the 13th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference: Breeding for success : diversity in action (2006)
 

Applying functional genomics to sorghum (Sorghum bicolour L.) (with Liz Izquierdo, L Slade Lee, and Robert J. Henry), Cereals: the future challenge: the ICC Jubilee Conference (2005)
 

Associations between phenotype variation and gene alteration in induced mutations (with L Slade Lee, Liz Izquierdo, Yihua Chen, and Robert J. Henry), XVII International Botanical Congress (2005)
 

BioBanking (with Robert J. Henry), Plant and Animal Genomes Conference XIII (2005)

The World has an enormous amount of biodiversity that is largely unexplored, misunderstood and not...

 

DNA Banks: another tool for the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources (with Robert J. Henry), XVII International Botanical Congress (2005)
 

Sorghum - a grain with a future in the food industry (with Liz Izquierdo, L Slade Lee, and Robert J. Henry), 89th American Association of Cereal Chemists Annual Meeting (2005)
 

Cereals in the Australian plant DNA bank (Presentation) (with Robert J. Henry), Cereals 2004: Proceedings of Seeding the Future the 54th Cereal Chemistry Division Conference of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (2004)
 

Modifying sorghum starch/protein structure for human consumption (with L Slade Lee, Liz Izquierdo, and Robert J. Henry), Cereals 2004: Proceedings of Seeding the Future the 54th Cereal Chemistry Division Conference of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (2004)
 

Emerging molecular technology for rapid variety identification and detection of variety contamination (with Gary A. Ablett, Effie M. Ablett, Peter C. Bundock, Brett G. Kennedy, and Robert J. Henry), Cereals 2002: Proceedings of the 52nd Australian Cereal Chemistry Conference (2002)
 

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The Australian plant DNA bank (with Maurizio Rossetto, Giovanni M. Cordeiro, L Slade Lee, Effie M. Ablett, and Robert J. Henry), Plant, Animal and Microbe Genomes X Conference (2002)

The Australian Plant DNA Bank (dnabank.com.au) is an innovative approach to ex-situ preservation of genetic...

 

Utilising the Australian plant DNA bank for plant breeding (with L Slade Lee, Giovanni M. Cordeiro, and Robert J. Henry), Plant breeding for the 11th millennium: Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference (2002)
 

Cereals in the Australian Plant DNA bank (with Robert J. Henry), 51st Cereal Chemistry Conference (2001)
 

The Australian plant DNA bank (Presentation) (with Maurizio Rossetto, Giovanni M. Cordeiro, L Slade Lee, Effie M. Ablett, and Robert J. Henry), ComBio 2001 (2001)