Joint Graduate School in Plant and Food Science
Crop production / Physiology
Find below a list of potential supervisers in this research area.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss graduate research opportunities in more detail, please email jgs-auckland@plantandfood.co.nz
Professor Andrew Allan
Plant & Food Research
The University of Auckland, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of supervision:
- New Kiwifruit colours - the transcriptional regulation of carotenoid biosynthesis in plants
- Comparative genomics of apple, strawberry and peach
- Environmental over-rides on anthocyanin synthesis
- Transcription factors controlling phenylpropanoid branch points
Dr Keith Funnell
Plant & Food Research
Areas of supervision:
- New Crops Development - pipeline from breeding through to production blueprints of ornamental crops
- Plant growth regulator involvement in optimising crop architecture of ornamental crops for yield, quality and timing
- Physiological basis of dormancy in Zantedeschia, Acer, and Gentiana
- Flowering Control -reducing the variability in and scheduling of time to flower in Gentiana, Clivia, Cyrtanthus, and Hydrangea
- Controlling the postharvest changes in pigmentation expression in flower spathes of Zantedeschia
