Paul Taylor
Position: |
Associate Dean (International) Associate Professor & Reader |
Address: |
LFR, University of Melbourne, Royal Pde, Parkville, 3010 |
Phone: |
+61-3-8344-5021 |
Fax: |
+61-3-8344-5037 |
Email: |
paulwjt@unimelb.edu.au |
Teaching:
- Plant Pathology (3rd Year)
- Supervision of students undertaking the International Experience program in Thailand as part of the subject Project in Agricultural Science (4th Year)
Research:
- Identification of disease resistance and abiotic stress tolerance genes in pulse and Brassica species
- Development of PCR-based diagnostic tests for pathogens
- Study of biodiversity of fungal pathogens using molecular markers.
Other professional interests:
Collaborative research projects involving postgraduate students in the Dept. Ecology and Biodiversity, Hong Kong University; and in the Dept. of Horticulture, Kasetsart University Thailand.
Recent projects and consultancies:
- Pyramiding ascochyta blight (A. rabiei) resistance in chickpea-ARC Linkage.
- Seed quality and disease resistance trait mapping in lentil-ARC Linkage.
- Genetic variation of botrytis grey mould of chickpea (Botrytis cinerea) in Bangladesh and Australia-ACIAR.
- Molecular markers for pulse improvement-DPI.The development of a diagnostic probe for detection of anthracnose in lentil-DPI.
- Development of molecular markers to the two mating types of ascochyta blight (A. rabiei) of chickpea-GRDC.
- Mechanisms of boron tolerance in Brassica species-UM.
- In vitro micropropagation and population diversity of Doryanthes excelsa-RIRDC.
- A practical phylogeny-based approach for revision of the important pathogenic genus Colletotrichum-Hong Kong Uni.
- Genetic diversity of tropical Vigna species using microsatellite analysis-Kasetsart Uni.
- Development of molecular markers linked to anthracnose resistance genes in chili-Kasetsart Uni.
- A United Nations consultancy was undertaken in Anhui, China to review the molecular marker aspects of a project to improve rice production through biotechnology.
Recent publications:
- Flandez-Galvez, H, Ford, R, Pang, ECK and Taylor, PWJ (2003). An intraspecific linkage map of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genome based on sequence tagged microsatellite site and resistance gene analog markers. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 106: 1447-1456.
- Flandez-Galvez, H, Ford, R, Pang, ECK, Ades, PK and Taylor, PWJ (2003). QTL analysis for ascochyta blight resistance in an intraspecific population of chickpea (Cicer arietinum). Theoretical and Applied Genetics DOI 10.1007/s00122-003-1371-4.
- Collard, BCY, Pang, ECK, Ades, PK and Taylor, PWJ (2003). Preliminary investigation of QTLs associated with seedling resistance to ascochyta blight from Cicer echinospermum, a wild relative of chickpea. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 107: 719-729.
- Phan, HTT, Ford, R and Taylor, PWJ (2003). Population structure of Ascochyta rabiei in Australia based on STMS fingerprints. Fungal Diversity 13: 111-129.
- Phan, HTT, Ford, R and Taylor, PWJ (2003). Mapping the mating type locus of Ascochyta rabiei, the causal agent of ascochyta blight of chickpea. Molecular Plant Pathology 4: 373-381.
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Potential Honours projects:
- Understanding the host-pathogen relationship of anthracnose diseases (caused by Colletotrichum sp) in temperate legumes.