Dr Jim Weller
Senior Lecturer
BSc PhD (Tas)
Contact Details
| Contact Campus |
Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building |
Life Sciences Building |
| Room Reference |
372h |
| Telephone |
+61 3 6226 7828 |
| Fax |
+61 3 6226 2698 |
| Email |
Jim.Weller@utas.edu.au |
Teaching Responsibilities
- Degree Co-ordinator, BBiotechMedRes
- Unit Co-ordinator, KPA376 Genetics
Units
- KPA161 - Biology of Plants
- KPA214 - Plants in Action
- KPA215 - Genetics and Evolution
- KPA376 - Genetics
- KPA378 - Plant Science Research
Publications
- Hecht V, Laurie RE, Vander Schoor JK, Ridge S, Knowles CL, Liew LC, Sussmilch FC, Murfet IC, Macknight RC, Weller JL, 2011, 'The pea GIGAS gene is a FLOWERING LOCUS T homolog necessary for graft-transmissible specification of flowering but not for responsiveness to photoperiod. ', Plant Cell, 23 (in press)
- Liew LC, Hecht V, Laurie RE, Knowles CL, Vander Schoor JK, Macknight RC, Weller JL, 2009, 'DIE NEUTRALIS and LATE BLOOMER 1 contribute to regulation of the pea circadian clock', Plant Cell, 21, 3198-3211
- Weller JL, Hecht V, Vander Schoor JK, Davidson SE, Ross JJ , 2009, 'Light regulation of gibberellin biosynthesis in pea is mediated through the COP1/HY5 pathway', Plant Cell, 21, 800-813
- Hecht V, Knowles CL, Vander Schoor JK, Liew LC, Jones SE, Lambert MJM, Weller JL , 2007, 'Pea LATE BLOOMER 1 is a GIGANTEA ortholog with roles in photoperiodic flowering, de-etiolation and transcriptional regulation of circadian clock gene homologs. ', Plant Physiology, 144, 648-661
- Hecht V, Foucher F, Ferrándiz C, Macknight R, Navarro C, Morin J, Vardy ME, Ellis N, Beltrán JP, Rameau C, Weller JL, 2005, 'Conservation of Arabidopsis flowering genes in model legumes', Plant Physiology, 137, 1420-1434
- Weller JL, Batge SL, Smith JJ, Kerckhoffs LHJ, Sineshchekov VA, Murfet IC, Reid JB, 2004, 'A dominant mutation in the pea PHYA gene confers enhanced responses to light and impairs the light-dependent degradation of phytochrome A', Plant Physiol., 135, 2186-2195
- Platten JD, Foo E, Elliott RC, Hecht V, Reid JB, Weller JL, 2005, 'Cryptochrome 1 contributes to blue light sensing in pea', Plant Physiol. , 139, 1472-1482
Research Interests
Plants are remarkably sensitive to changes in their environment, and changes in factors such as temperature and light often serve as important signals that influence when a plant flowers and the growth habit it adopts.
Work in my group focuses on understanding how daylength, temperature and light quality (colour) affect vegetative growth and flowering. I work mainly with the model legumes Pisum sativum (garden pea) and Medicago truncatula (barrel medic).
I am also interested in comparative studies with other legume crop species, and in Eucalyptus as a model tree system.
Research Areas
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