New final report
Geoff
Woodall, Melinda Moule, Peter Eckersley, Ben Boxshall and Ben Puglisi:
Development of new root vegetable crops from southern Western Australia's
diverse
tuberous flora. Brochures relating to the Australian food and dye products
from the project are available. Summary and Final
report
New scientific publications from research supported by the
Foundation
Abstracts of the following publications have recently been added to
the
website
M. Tibbett, M.H. Ryan, S.J. Barker, Y. Chen,
M.D. Denton, T. Edmonds-Tibbett & C.
Walker. The diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizas of selected
Australian Fabaceae. An abstract can be found here.
It appeared in Plant Biosystems, 2008, Vol. 142, No. 2, pp. 420–427
A.K. Ahmed, K.A. Johnson, M.D. Burchett and B.J.Kenny. The
effects of heat, smoke, leaching, scarification, temperature and
NaCl salinity on the germination of Solanum centrale (the
Australian bush tomato). An abstract can be found here.
It appeared in Seed Science & Technology (2006) 34:
33-45
Candida L. Briggs and E. Charles Morris. Seed-coat dormancy
in Grevillea linearifolia: little change in permeabilityto
an apoplastic tracer after treatment with smoke and heat. An
abstract can be found here.
It appeared in the Annals of Botany (2008) 101:
623–632
David H. Duncan, Adreinne B. Nicotra and Saul A. Cunningham. High
self-pollen transfer and low fruit set in buzz-pollinated Dianella
revoluta (Phormiaceae). An abstract can be found here.
It appeared in the Australian Journal of Botany (2004) 52:185-193
David H. Duncan, Adrienne B. Nicotra, Jeff T. Wood and Saul A. Cunningham. Plant
isolation reduces outcross pollen receipt in a partially self-compatible herb. An
abstract can be found here.
It appeared in the Journal of Ecology (2004) 92: 977–98
TM Llorens, DJ Ayre and RJ Whelan. Evidence for ancient genetic
subdivision among recently fragmented populations of the endangered
shrub Grevillea caleyi (Proteaceae). An abstract
can be found here. It
appeared in Heredity (2004) 92: 519–526
Newsletters
The most recent Newsletter (January 09), and links to earlier newsletters
in the New Series are here.
Young Scientist prizes for 2008
The Ecological Society
of Australia Young Scientist prizes for 2008 were:
Talk: Christina Czembor, University of Melbourne.
Can we be certain?: Using expert models to manage Box-Ironbark forests Summary
Poster: Tanya Bailey, University of Tasmania. Use of
fire, cultivation
and
coarse woody debris as restoration techniques in
Tasmanian dry forests.
. Summary
Call
for Applications for Grants from the Foundation to
begin in 2010
We are now calling for applications for grants to begin in 2010. The Foundation
expects to support between two and four projects at $5000 - $12,000 each in 2010
with possible extension into 2011. Preliminary applications (2 A4 pages) will
be accepted until 23rd March 2008. Short listed applicants will be asked to submit
a full application. The Call for Applications is here.
The
Annual General Meeting was held on 24th November
2008
The President's report is here.
The AGM supported the award of grants to new projects:
Phillip Ainsley ‘Developing a screening procedure
to determine the impact of climate change on seed germination in threatened
native
plant species’
Brian Atwell ‘Can the phenology of Australian
wild relatives of cultivated rice be modified for human use?’
Dion Harrison ‘Understanding the biochemical
basis of flower colour in Australian native Ptilotus and Gomphrena’
Robert Henry ‘Impact of climate on the
genetic diversity of native species using Microlaena stipoides as
a model’
Catherine Lovelock ‘The capacity of native
saltmarsh halophytes to remove salt from saline wastewater discharge – an
experimental assessment of salt uptake mechanisms in common Australian
saltmarsh chenopods’
Nicholas Paul ‘Green caviar” and “sea
grapes”: Targeted cultivation of high-value seaweeds from
the genus Caulerpa’
A project proposal by Peter Wilson and Maurizio Rossetto from the
Sydney Botanical Gardens on the Magenta Lilly Pilly (Syzygium
paniculatum)
was approved by the Scientific Research Committee, but was unable
to be funded. An outline
of this
project
is here for any one or
any group that would be interested in sponsoring this proposal.
Three Councilors retired by rotation and were re-elected, Richard
Williams, Ian Cox and David Murray. Paddy Lightfoot who was appointed
as a Councillor by the
Council during the year retired in accordance with Article 43 and was re-elected.
The new Council is:
President: Dr Peter Goodwin
Secretary: Mr Ian Cox
Treasurer: Dr Jenny Jobling
Vice President: Professor Richard Williams
Vice President: Dr E. Charles Morris
Members: Dr David Murray(ASGAP representative)
Mr
Ross Smyth-Kirk
Professor
Acram Taji
New reports
A new final report has recently been added to the website
E. Charles Morris, and Candida Briggs Do heat and
smoke affect the permeability of the Grevillea seed coat to large
molecular weight compounds? Summary and Final
report