Dr Laura Quittenden
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
BSc Hons PhD
Contact Details
| Contact Campus |
Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building |
Life Sciences Building |
| Room Reference |
267 |
| Telephone |
+61 3 6262 7238 |
| Fax |
+61 3 6226 2698 |
| Email |
Laura.Quittenden@utas.edu.au |
Publications
- Foo E, Yoneyama K, Hugill C, Quittenden L, Reid JB. 2013. Strigolactones: internal and external signals in plant symbioses? Plant Signaling and Behavior, in press, accepted 8th December, 2012.
- Foo E, Yoneyama K, Hugill C, Quittenden LJ, Reid JB. 2012a. Strigolactones and the regulation of pea symbioses in response to nitrate and phosphate deficiency. Molecular Plant, in press. doi: 10.1093/mp/sss115.
- Ross JJ, Tivendale ND, Davidson SE, Reid JB, Davies NW, Quittenden LJ, Smith JA. 2012. A mutation affecting the synthesis of 4-chloroindole-3-acetic acid. Plant Signalling and Behavior 7: 1533-1536.
- Symons GM, Chua YJ, Ross JJ, Quittenden LJ, Davies NW, Reid JB. 2012. Hormonal changes during non-climacteric ripening in strawberry. Journal of Experimental Botany 63: 4741-50.
- Tivendale ND, Davidson SE, Davies NW, Smith JA, Dalmais M, Bendahmane AI, Quittenden LJ, Sutton L, Bala RK, Le Signor C, Thompson R, Horne J, Reid JB, Ross JJ. 2012. Biosynthesis of the halogenated auxin, 4-chloroindole-3-acetic acid. Plant Physiology 159: 1055-1063.
- Quittenden LJ, Davies NW, Smith JA, Molesworth PP, Tivendale ND, Ross JJ. 2009. Auxin biosynthesis in Pisum sativum (pea): Characterisation of the tryptamine pathway. Plant Physiology 151:1130-1138.
Research Interests
My main line of research is into auxin biosynthesis - discovering which pathway to the main plant growth hormone, auxin, is being used in a particular plant tissue. This involves both molecular genetic screening of genotypes for mutations in particular biosynthesis-related genes, and also a physico-chemical approach to measuring and manipulating auxin and its precursors.
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