Bioinformatics has become an important component in many plant research areas, from addressing topics in plant development to the elucidation of abiotic stress tolerance.

This has resulted in the participation of my research group in a large variety of research projects both at national and international level, often in close collaboration with established Australian breeders and multinational agribusiness. In my research I apply bioinformatics to investigate the genetic control of economically important traits across a range of commercial crops. My interest in genome and genetic diversity has also lead to the development of bioinformatic tools to visualise and mine genomic resources to identify allelic variation underlying loci of interest. Other projects have investigated transcriptome responses to environmental stresses like heat, drought, salt or boron, which are particularly problematic in the Australian context.