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Dr Jennifer Watling
Qualifications
- BSc(Hons) James Cook University
- PhD (Plant Physiology) JCU & ANU
Fields of Research (water related)
Management of Ecosystems through Improved Understanding, Allocation and Use of Water
Senior Appointments and Awards
Research Areas
- Impacts of host water status on infection by mistletoes
- Parasitic plants as potential bio-control agents: specifically the impact of Cassytha pubescens on the introduced shrub gorse (with John Virtue, Dept of Water, Land and Biodiversity conservation)
- Causes of mistletoe decline in the Riverland region of SA
- Responses of native vegetation to increasing salinity (with Jose Facelli, Environmental Biology and Amanda Camp, Dept of Water, Land, and Biodiversity Conservation)
- Photosynthetic pathway diversity and flexibility in flood-plain and aquatic plants (with Keith Walker and George Ganf, Environmental Biology and Howard Griffiths, University of Cambridge)
- Physiological function of stomatal modifications in plants (with Bob Hill, Environmental Biology and SA Museum)
- Regulation of thermogenesis in the sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (with Roger Seymour, Environmental Biology and Sharon Robinson, University of Wollongong)
Research Interests
- Physiology and ecology of parasitic angiosperms and their hosts
- Photosynthetic pathway diversity in variable environments
- Stomatal physiology
- Thermogenesis and thermoregulation in plants
Funding Sources
Collaborations
Department of Water, Land & Biodiversity Conservation
University of Cambridge
SA Museum
Publications
Leakey ADB, Press MC, Scholes JD, & Watling JR (2002) Flecked light increases the impact of elevated CO2: growth and photosynthetic responses of Shorea leprosula, a tropical rain forest tree seedling. Plant, Cell & Environment.
Watling JR & Press MC (2001) Impacts of infection by parasitic angiosperms on host photosynthesis. Plant Biology 3, 244-250.
Watling JR, Press MC & Quick WP (2000) Elevated CO2 induces biochemical and ultrastructural changes in leaves of the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor. Plant Physiology 123, 1143-1152.
Watling JR & Press MC (2000) Infection with the parasitic angiosperm, Striga hermonthica, influences the response of the C3 cereal Oryza sativa to elevated CO2. Global Change Biology. 6, 919-930.
Watling JR & Press MC (1998) How does the C4 grass Eragrostis pilosa respond to elevated carbon dioxide and infection with the parasitic angiosperm Striga hermonthica? The New Phytologist 140, 667-675
Watling JR & Press MC (1997) How is the relationship between the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor and the C3 root hemi-parasites Striga hermonthica and Striga asiatica affected by elevated CO2? Plant, Cell & Environment 20, 1292-1300.
Watling JR, Robinson SA, Woodrow IE & Osmond CB (1997) Responses of rainforest understorey plants to excess light during sunflecks. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 24, 17-25.
Watling JR, Ball MC & Woodrow IE (1997) The utilization of lightflecks for growth in four Australian rain-forest species. Functional Ecology 11, 231-239.
Miller AC, Watling JR, Overton IC & Sinclair R (2003) Does water status of Eucalyptus largiflorens (Myrtaceae) affect infection by the mistletoe Amyema miquelii? Functional Plant Biology, in press.
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Contact Details
Dr Jennifer Watling
Room 103, Benham Building
Adelaide
SA 5005
Ph 08 8303 6208
Fax 08 8303 6222
Em jennifer.watling@adelaide.edu.au
Web http://www.ees.adelaide.edu.au/people/enviro/jwatli01.html
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The University of Adelaide
