Stuart Roy

Teaching Strengths

Plant Biotechnology
Plant Genetics
Agricultural Sciences

Prof Stuart Roy

Program Director

School of Agriculture, Food and Wine

College of Science

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD as Principal Supervisor - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Stu is a Professor  at the School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide. He is currently the Deputy Director (Industry) for the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Accelerated Future Crop Development, on the management committee for Plant SynBio Australia, and formerly the Director for the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Wheat in a Hot and Dry Environment. His interests are in improving the abiotic stress tolerance of cereals crops, particularly salinity tolerance, and in improving cereal yield.Stu gained a BSc (Hons) in Plant and Environmental Biology for the University of St Andrews (UK) and a PhD in Plant Physiology from the University of Cambridge (UK). After a Broodbank Research Fellowship at Cambridge, Stuart moved to the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of Adelaide, to lead the Salinity Research program. He continues this program today in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine.
 
Stu is also looks after the Student Experience portfolio at School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, and is the Program Director for the Bachelor of Agricultural Science Degree

Loss of crop yield due to high concentrations of Na+ and Cl- on agricultural land is a significant problem for Australian farmers. An estimated 4.6 M ha of Australian farmland is affected to some degree by saline soils - currently 1 in 2 Western Australian farms and 1 in 5 South Australian farms are affected by salinity. By 2050 it is expected that around 14 M ha of Australian agricultural land will be affected by dryland salinity, therefore it is imperative that we identify genes and cellular processes which will increase the salinity tolerance of our crop plants.

Crops undergoing salt stress experience an immediate reduction in growth and tillering (shoot independent ionic stress) and an increase in premature senescence due to the accumulation of toxic ions (shoot dependent ionic stress).

Our group has a number of projects all aimed at obtaining a better understanding of the processes involved in both the shoot independent and the shoot dependent ionic stress. We are using both forward and reverse genetics to identify mechanisms for improving the salinity tolerance of crops.

Date Position Institution name
2025 - ongoing Associate Head of School University of Adelaide
2021 - 2024 Head of Department of Agricultural Sciences, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine The University of Adelaide
2021 - ongoing Deputy Director (Industry), ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Accelerated Future Crop Development University of Adelaide
2021 - ongoing Deputy Head of Agriculture Science University of Adelaide
2019 - 2020 Director University of Adelaide
2018 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2015 - 2017 Senior Research Fellow University of Adelaide
2004 - 2014 Research Fellow University of Adelaide
2001 - 2004 Broodbank Research Fellow University of Cambridge

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2017 Award South Australian Grains Industry Trust The University of Adelaide Australia -

Date Institution name Country Title
1998 - 2002 University of Cambridge United Kingdom PhD
1994 - 1998 University of St Andrews United Kingdom B.Sc.(Hons) Plant and Environmental Biology

Year Citation
2026 Tao, X. -Y., Tan, C., Liu, Y., Wang, Y., Raza, A., He, J., . . . Chen, Z. -H. (2026). The potential of wheat spatial omics. Nature Genetics, 58(5), 962-973.
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2025 Garcia-Daga, S., Roy, S. J., & Gilliham, M. (2025). Redefining the role of sodium exclusion within salt tolerance. Trends in Plant Science, 30(2), 137-146.
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2025 Xie, Y., Roy, S. J., Schilling, R. K., & Liu, H. (2025). Multi-modal few-shot learning for anthesis prediction of individual wheat plants. Plant Phenomics, 7(3), 100091-1-100091-18.
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2025 Xie, Y., Roy, S. J., Schilling, R. K., Berger, B., & Liu, H. (2025). Hyperspectral-based classification of individual wheat plants into fine-scale reproductive stages. Plant Methods, 21(1), 146-1-146-20.
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2024 Pallotta, M., Okada, T., Roy, S., Pearson, A., Baumann, U., & Whitford, R. (2024). Diversity in bread and durum wheat stigma morphology and linkage of increased stigma length to dwarfing gene Rht14. Theoretical and Applied Genetics: international journal of plant breeding research, 137(7), 160-1-160-15.
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2023 Kettenburg, A. T., Lopez, M. A., Yogendra, K., Prior, M. J., Rose, T., Bimson, S., . . . Bailey-Serres, J. (2023). PHOSPHORUS-STARVATION TOLERANCE 1 (OsPSTOL1) is prevalent in upland rice and enhances root growth and hastens low phosphate signaling in wheat. Plant, Cell and Environment, 46(7), 2187-2205.
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2023 Pathoumthong, P., Zhang, Z., Roy, S. J., & El Habti, A. (2023). Rapid non-destructive method to phenotype stomatal traits. Plant Methods, 19(1), 36-1-36-9.
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2022 Asif, M. A., Garcia, M., Tilbrook, J., Brien, C., Dowling, K., Berger, B., . . . Pearson, A. S. (2022). Corrigendum to: Identification of salt tolerance QTL in a wheat RIL mapping population using destructive and non-destructive phenotyping. Functional Plant Biology, 49(7), 672.
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2022 Qiu, J., Henderson, S. W., Tester, M., Roy, S. J., & Gilliham, M. (2022). SLAH1, a homologue of the slow type anion channel SLAC1, modulates shoot Cl- accumulation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana (vol 67, pg 4495, 2016). JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, 73(18), 1 page.
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2022 Chidzanga, C., Mullan, D., Roy, S., Baumann, U., & Garcia, M. (2022). Nested association mapping-based GWAS for grain yield and related traits in wheat grown under diverse Australian environments. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 135(12), 4437-4456.
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2022 Lethin, J., Byrt, C., Berger, B., Brien, C., Jewell, N., Roy, S., . . . Aronsson, H. (2022). Improved Salinity Tolerance-Associated Variables Observed in EMS Mutagenized Wheat Lines. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(19), 1-20.
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2022 Bowerman, A. F., Byrt, C. S., Roy, S. J., Whitney, S. M., Mortimer, J. C., Ankeny, R. A., . . . Pogson, B. J. (2022). Potential abiotic stress targets for modern genetic manipulation.. The Plant cell, 35(1), 139-161.
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2021 Asif, M. A., Garcia, M., Tilbrook, J., Brien, C., Dowling, K., Berger, B., . . . Pearson, A. S. (2021). Identification of salt tolerance QTL in a wheat RIL mapping population using destructive and non-destructive phenotyping. Functional Plant Biology, 48(2), 131-140.
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2021 Borjigin, C., Schilling, R. K., Jewell, N., Brien, C., Sanchez-Ferrero, J. C., Eckermann, P., . . . Roy, S. (2021). Identifying the genetic control of salinity tolerance in the bread wheat landrace Mocho de Espiga Branca. Functional Plant Biology, 48(11), 1148-1160.
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2021 Menadue, D. J., Riboni, M., Baumann, U., Schilling, R. K., Plett, D. C., & Roy, S. J. (2021). Proton-pumping pyrophosphatase homeolog expression is a dynamic trait in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum). Plant Direct, 5(10), 1-16.
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2020 Munns, R., Day, D. A., Fricke, W., Watt, M., Arsova, B., Barkla, B. J., . . . Tyerman, S. D. (2020). Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants. New Phytologist, 225(3), 1072-1090.
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2020 Regmi, K. C., Kalenahalli, Y., Farias, J. G., Li, L., Kandel, R., Yadav, U. P., . . . Gaxiola, R. A. (2020). Improved Yield and Photosynthate Partitioning in AVP1 Expressing Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Plants.. Frontiers in plant science, 11, 273.
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2020 Amarasinghe, S., Huang, W., Watson-Haigh, N., Gilliham, M., Roy, S., & Baumann, U. (2020). AtCIPK16 Mediates Salt Stress Through Phytohormones and Transcription Factors.
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2020 Houston, K., Jiaen, Q., Wege, S., Oakey, H., Hrmova, M., Qu, Y., . . . Waugh, R. (2020). Barley sodium content is regulated by natural variants of the Na+ transporter HvHKT1;5. Communications Biology, 3(1), 258-1-258-9.
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2020 Houston, K., Qiu, J., Wege, S., Hrmova, M., Oakey, H., Qu, Y., . . . Waugh, R. (2020). A Grain of Salt.
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2019 Ward, B., Brien, C., Oakey, H., Pearson, A., Negrão, S., Schilling, R. K., . . . Van Den Hengel, A. (2019). High‐throughput 3D modelling to dissect the genetic control of leaf elongation in barley (Hordeum vulgare). The Plant Journal, 98(3), 555-570.
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2019 Asif, M. A., Pearson, A. S., Schilling, R. K., & Roy, S. J. (2019). Opportunities for Developing Salt‐tolerant Wheat and Barley Varieties. Annual Plant Reviews online, 2(1), 157-218.
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2019 Amarasinghe, S. L., Watson-Haigh, N. S., Byrt, C., James, R., Qiu, J., Berkowitz, O., . . . Baumann, U. (2019). Transcriptional variation is associated with differences in shoot sodium accumulation in distinct barley varieties. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 166, 103812-1-103812-15.
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2018 Asif, M. A., Schilling, R. K., Tilbrook, J., Brien, C., Dowling, K., Rabie, H., . . . Pearson, A. S. (2018). Mapping of novel salt tolerance QTL in an Excalibur x Kukri doubled haploid wheat population. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 131(10), 2179-2196.
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2017 Schilling, R., Tester, M., Marschner, P., Plett, D., & Roy, S. (2017). AVP1: one protein, many roles. Trends in Plant Science, 22(2), 154-162.
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2017 Gilliham, M., Able, J., & Roy, S. (2017). Translating knowledge about abiotic stress tolerance to breeding programmes. The Plant Journal, 90(5), 898-917.
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2017 Li, B., Qiu, J., Jayakannan, M., Xu, B., Li, Y., Mayo, G., . . . Roy, S. (2017). AtNPF2.5 modulates chloride (Cl¯) efflux from roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7, 2013-1-2013-16.
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2017 Tilbrook, J., Schilling, R., Berger, B., Garcia, A., Trittermann, C., Coventry, S., . . . Roy, S. (2017). Variation in shoot tolerance mechanisms not related to ion toxicity in barley. Functional Plant Biology, 44(12), 1194-1206.
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2017 Adem, G., Roy, S., Huang, Y., Chen, Z. -H., Wang, F., Zhou, M., . . . Shabala, S. (2017). Expressing Arabidopsis thaliana V-ATPase subunit C in barley (Hordeum vulgare) improves plant performance under saline condition by enabling better osmotic adjustment. Functional Plant Biology, 44(12), 1147-1159.
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2017 Shamaya, N., Shavrukov, Y., Langridge, P., Roy, S., & Tester, M. (2017). Genetics of Na⁺ exclusion and salinity tolerance in Afghani durum wheat landraces. BMC Plant Biology, 17(1), 209-1-209-8.
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2016 Li, B., Byrt, C., Qiu, J., Baumann, U., Hrmova, M., Evrard, A., . . . Roy, S. (2016). Identification of a stelar-localized transport protein that facilitates root-to-shoot transfer of chloride in arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 170(2), 1014-1029.
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2016 Amarasinghe, S., Watson-Haigh, N. S., Gilliham, M., Roy, S., & Baumann, U. (2016). The evolutionary origin of CIPK16: a gene involved in enhanced salt tolerance. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 100, 135-147.
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2016 Qiu, J., Henderson, S. W., Tester, M., Roy, S. J., & Gilliham, M. (2016). SLAH1, a homologue of the slow type anion channel SLAC1, modulates shoot Cl⁻ accumulation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67(15), 4495-4505.
DOI Scopus97 WoS86 Europe PMC56
2015 Schmöckel, S., Garcia, A., Berger, B., Tester, M., Webb, A., & Roy, S. (2015). Different NaCl-induced calcium signatures in the arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes Col-0 and C24. PLoS One, 10(2), e0117564-1-e0117564-9.
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2015 Adem, G., Roy, S., Plett, D., Zhou, M., Bowman, J., & Shabala, S. (2015). Expressing AtNHX1 in barley (Hordium vulgare L.) does not improve plant performance under saline conditions. Plant Growth Regulation, 77(3), 289-297.
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2015 Thoday-Kennedy, E., Jacobs, A., & Roy, S. (2015). The role of the CBL-CIPK calcium signalling network in regulating ion transport in response to abiotic stress. Plant Growth Regulation, 76(1), 3-12.
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2015 Takahashi, F., Tilbrook, J., Trittermann, C., Berger, B., Roy, S., Seki, M., . . . Tester, M. (2015). Comparison of leaf sheath transcriptome profiles with physiological traits of bread wheat cultivars under salinity stress. PLoS One, 10(8), e0133322-1-e0133322-23.
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2014 Schilling, R., Marschner, P., Shavrukov, Y., Berger, B., Tester, M., Roy, S., & Plett, D. (2014). Expression of the Arabidopsis vacuolar H⁺-pyrophosphatase gene (AVP1) improves the shoot biomass of transgenic barley and increases grain yield in a saline field. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 12(3), 378-386.
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2014 Roy, S., Negrao, S., & Tester, M. (2014). Salt resistant crop plants. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 26, 115-124.
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2014 Adem, G., Roy, S., Zhou, M., Bowman, J., & Shabala, S. (2014). Evaluating contribution of ionic, osmotic and oxidative stress components towards salinity tolerance in barley. BMC Plant Biology, 14(1), 1-13.
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2014 Hairmansis, A., Berger, B., Tester, M., & Roy, S. (2014). Image-based phenotyping for non-destructive screening of different salinity tolerance traits in rice. Rice, 7(1), 16-1-16-10.
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2013 Shavrukov, Y., Bovill, J., Afzal, I., Hayes, J., Roy, S., Tester, M., & Collins, N. (2013). HVP10 encoding V-PPase is a prime candidate for the barley HvNax3 sodium exclusion gene: evidence from fine mapping and expression analysis. Planta, 237(4), 1111-1122.
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2013 Roy, S., Huang, W., Evrard, A., Schmoeckel, S., Zafar, Z., & Tester, M. (2013). A novel protein kinase involved in Na⁺ exclusion revealed from positional cloning. Plant Cell and Environment, 36(3), 553-568.
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2012 Roy, S., Conn, S., Mayo, G., Athman, A., & Gilliham, M. (2012). Transcriptomics on small samples. Methods in molecular biology, 913, 335-350.
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2011 Roy, S., Tucker, E., & Tester, M. (2011). Genetic analysis of abiotic stress tolerance in crops. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 14(3), 232-239.
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2011 golzarian, M., Frick, R., Rajendran, K., Berger, B., Roy, S., Tester, M., & Lun, D. (2011). Accurate inference of shoot biomass from high-throughput images of cereal plants. Plant Methods, 7(2), 1-11.
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2010 Plett, D., Safwat El Hussieny, G., Gilliham, M., Moller, I., Roy, S., Shirley, N., . . . Tester, M. (2010). Improved salinity tolerance of rice through cell type-specific expression of AtHKT1;1. PLoS One, 5(9), 1-8.
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2010 Jha, D., Shirley, N., Tester, M., & Roy, S. (2010). Variation in salinity tolerance and shoot sodium accumulation in Arabidopsis ecotypes linked to differences in the natural expression levels of transporters involved in sodium transport. Plant Cell and Environment, 33(5), 793-804.
DOI Scopus119 WoS113 Europe PMC75
2009 Moller, I., Gilliham, M., Jha, D., Mayo, G., Roy, S., Coates, J., . . . Tester, M. (2009). Shoot Na+ exclusion and increased salinity tolerance engineered by cell type-specific alteration of Na+ transport in arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 21(7), 2163-2178.
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2009 Rajendran, K., Tester, M., & Roy, S. (2009). Quantifying the three main components of salinity tolerance in cereals. Plant Cell and Environment, 32(3), 237-249.
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2008 Roy, S., Gilliham, M., Berger, B., Essah, P., Cheffings, C., Miller, A., . . . Tester, M. (2008). Investigating glutamate receptor-like gene co-expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell and Environment, 31(6), 861-871.
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2003 Roy, S., Cuin, T., & Leigh, R. (2003). Nanolitre-scale assays to determine the activities of enzymes in individual plant cells. Plant Journal, 34(4), 555-564.
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Year Citation
2024 Shi, A., Cavagnaro, T. R., Sumby, K. M., McDonald, G., Denton, M. D., Roy, S. J., & Schilling, R. K. (2024). Impact of agronomic management on the soil microbiome: A southern Australian dryland broadacre perspective. In D. Sparks (Ed.), Advances in Agronomy (Vol. 186, pp. 113-171). Elsevier.
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2016 Roy, S., Collins, N., & Munns, R. (2016). Abiotic stress genes and mechanisms in wheat. In C. Wrigley, H. Corke, K. Seetharaman, & J. Faubion (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Food Grains (Vol. 4, 2nd ed., pp. 393-397). Academic Press.
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2014 Tilbrook, J., & Roy, S. (2014). Salinity tolerance. In M. A. Jenks, & P. M. Hasegawa (Eds.), Plant abiotic stress (2nd edition) (2 ed., pp. 133-178). United States: Wiley.
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2012 Roy, S. J., & Tester, M. (2012). Increasing Salinity Tolerance of Crops. In Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (pp. 5315-5331). Springer New York.
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2012 Roy, S. J., Tester, M., Gaxiola, R. A., & Flowers, T. J. (2012). Plants of Saline Environments. In M. -H. Education (Ed.), McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Volumes 1-20 11th Edition (11 ed.). McGraw-Hill Professional.

Year Citation
2023 Chairunisa., Rachmat, A., Perdani, A. Y., Sulistyowati, Y., Herliana, L., & Roy, S. J. (2023). Image-based Growth Evaluation and K<sup>+</sup>/Na<sup>+</sup> Ratio of Transgenic Rice Lines Harboring AtAVP1 Gene under Salinity Stress. In AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 2972 (pp. 060015). Online: AIP Publishing.
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2019 Tyerman, S., Munns, R., Fricke, W., Arsova, B., Barkla, B., Bose, J., . . . Wen, Z. (2019). Energy costs of salinity tolerance in crop plants. In New Phytologist Vol. 221 (pp. 25-29). UK: Wiley.
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Year Citation
2015 Roy, S. J., & Tester, M. A. (2015). 2009290140, Salinity tolerance in plants. Australia.
2015 Roy, S. J., & Tester, M. (2015). US9,206,400 B2, Salinity tolerance in plants. USA.

Year Citation
2024 Roy, S. (2024). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Schilling) - Barley.
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2023 Plett, D., & Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Plett) - Rice.
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2023 Plett, D., & Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Plett) - Wheat.
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2023 Plett, D., & Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Plett) - Wheat (salt).
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Asif) - Wheat.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy) - Barley (MxK Rerun).
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Hairmansis) - Rice.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Hairmansis) - Rice.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Hairmansis) - Rice (1).
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Hairmansis) - Rice (2).
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Schilling) - Barley.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Schilling) - Barley.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Schilling) - Barley (Wheat).
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Schilling) - Wheat.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Schilling) - Wheat.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Schilling) - Wheat.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Tilbrook) - Barley.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Tilbrook) - Barley.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Tilbrook) - Wheat.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy, Tilbrook) - Wheat.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy) - Wheat.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy) - Wheat.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Roy) - Wheat.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Roy, Garnett) - Rice (USAID).
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Roy, Garnett) - Wheat (USAID).
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Roy, Menadue) - Wheat.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Roy) - Rice.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Roy) - Rice.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Roy) - Wheat.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA TPA (Roy, Hairmansis) - Rice.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA TPA (Roy, Tilbrook) - Barley.
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2023 Roy, S. (2023). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA ACPFG (Garcia) - Wheat.
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2021 Borjigin, C., Schilling, R., Jewell, N., Brien, C., Sanchez, J. C., Eckermann, P., . . . Roy, S. (2021). Identifying the genetic control of salinity tolerance in the bread wheat landrace Mocho de Espiga Branca - data.
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Grains Research and Development Council (2026-203) "Development of next-generation breeding technologies"

BioPlatforms Australia (2025-2028) "Plant Synthetic Biology Australia"

Grains Research and Development Council (2025-2026) "Establishing a new paradigm for salinity tolerance in cereals"

Grains Research and Development Council (2024-2028) "Validation of targeted genetic improvements in yield potential and water use efficiency in wheat"

Australia Research Council (2024-2026) "Protecting cereal grain development at high temperatures"

Australia Research Council (2024-2026) "A multi-environment phenotyping site for biotech plants"

Grains Research and Development Council (2023-2027) "Analysing intrinsic heat response pathways to optimise thermal tolerance of wheat"

Grains Research and Development Council (2023-2027) "Enterprise choice and sequence strategies that drive sustainable and profitable southern Australian farming systems"

Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre (2022-2027) "Accelerated Future Crop Development"

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (2022-2026) "Past, present and future drivers of change – soil microbiomes and functional diversity"

Grasslanz Ltd (2021-2027) "Incorporation of Epichloe endophytes into wheat germplasm"

 

BIOL2010 Agricultural Genetics 

AGRI3007 Agricultural Experimental Design and Analysis

BIOL2024 Foundations in Plant Science

BIOL3017 Plant Biotechnology

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2026 Co-Supervisor Functional and Evolutionary Analysis of HKTs for Stomatal Regulation in Arabidopsis and Wheat Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jackson O'Neill
2026 Co-Supervisor Molecular Gene Regulatory Networks Underlying Root Salinity Tolerance in Barley and Cereal Crops Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Xiaoyue Zhu
2025 Co-Supervisor Novel Field-based Phenotyping Methods for Trait Evaluation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Qiwei Shen
2024 Principal Supervisor Molecular mechanism of root response to compacted soil in cereals Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Ciara Marie Danes
2023 Principal Supervisor Breeding Epichloë endophyte compatible modern wheat varieties Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Lisa Rachel Wood
2023 Principal Supervisor Establish the role of HKT in driving crop salinity tolerance and yield in a water limited environment Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Alex Seward
2023 Principal Supervisor Breeding Epichlo endophyte compatible modern wheat varieties Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Lisa Rachel Wood
2023 Principal Supervisor Stomatal basis of crop water-use efficiency in dry environments Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Phetdalaphone Pathoumthong
2023 Principal Supervisor Efficient genotype-independent transformation method to enhance gene editing in cereals Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Benjamin Suleman Kurya

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Field-Based High-Throughput Phenotyping for Anthesis Prediction in
Individual Wheat and Canola Plants		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yiting Xie
2021 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Assessing Wheat Agronomic Traits with Remote Sensing Technologies to Detect Variable Soil P Deficiency Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Enqi Wu
2021 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Nested Association Mapping of wheat yield under Australian drought and heat conditions Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Charity Chidzanga
2015 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Understanding salinity tolerance of a bread wheat landrace Mocho de Espiga Branca Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms . Chana
2015 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Identification and characterisation of vacuolar proton-pumping pyrophosphatase genes in bread wheat Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Daniel Jamie Menadue
2014 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Defining Transcriptional Networks Associated with Plant Salinity Tolerance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Shanika Lakmini Amarasinghe
2014 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Evaluation of the Effects of AtCIPK16 Expression on the Salt Tolerance of Barley and Wheat Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Emily Laurina Thoday-Kennedy
2013 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Identification of Salt Tolerance Genes in Bread Wheat Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Ahsan Asif
2011 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Evaluating the abiotic stress tolerance of transgenic barley expressing an Arabidopsis vacuolar proton-pumping pyrophosphatase gene (AVP1) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time APrf Rhiannon Kate Schilling
2011 - 2015 Principal Supervisor Role of AtCIPK16 in Arabidopsis abiotic tolerance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Wenmian Huang
2011 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Root Cell-Type Specific Expression of Multiple Salinity Tolerance Genes to Alter Plant Shoot Sodium Accumulation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Gordon Wellman
2011 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Investigation of chloride transport mechanisms in Arabidopsis thaliana root Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Jiaen Qiu
2010 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Salinity detection and control of sodium transport in Arabidopsis thaliana Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Sandra Manuela Schmoeckel
2010 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Modifying sodium transport to improve salinity tolerance of commercial rice cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr . Aris Hairmansis
2010 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Characterisation of AtPQL1, AtPQL2 and AtPQL3 as Candidate Voltage Insensitive Non-Selective Cation Channels (vi-NSCCs) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Monique Kirsten Shearer
2010 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Confirmation of the barley vacuolar pyrophosphatase HvHVP10 as a candidate gene for salinity tolerance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Jessica Hilary Bovill
2009 - 2013 Principal Supervisor POT Proteins are Important for Chloride Transport in Arabidopsis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Bo Li
2007 - 2012 Co-Supervisor Components of Salinity Tolerance in Wheat Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Karthika Rajendran
2006 - 2011 Co-Supervisor Role and control of HKT in Oryza sativa & Arabidopsis thaliana Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Joanna Sundstrom

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