亚洲彩票官网

Positions held

2023- ARC Grant Funded Researcher B, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of 亚洲彩票官网

2021- Visiting Research Fellow (Titleholder), School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of 亚洲彩票官网

2016-2019 Research Fellow, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of 亚洲彩票官网

2004-2015 Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG), University of 亚洲彩票官网

1999-2003 Postdoctoral Scientist, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich

1996-1999 Postdoctoral Scientist, Plant Industry (CSIRO), Canberra

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), Monash University, 1990

PhD, University of 亚洲彩票官网, 1995

Current research interests

Agrivoltaics

Heat stress tolerance in wheat

Barley yellow dwarf virus resistance in barley

Refereed journal articles & book chapters

Emebiri, L., Erena, M. F., Taylor, K., Hildebrand, S., Maccaferri, M., Collins, N. C. (2023). Field screening for heat-stress tolerance of floret fertility in wheat (Triticum aestivum and T. durum). Crop & Pasture Science, 75, CP23214. doi: 10.1071/CP23214

Erena, M. F., Lohraseb, I., Munoz-Santa, I., Taylor, J. D., Emebiri, L. C., & Collins, N. C. (2021). The WtmsDW locus on wheat chromosome 2B controls major natural variation for floret sterility responses to heat sress at booting stage. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 1-14. doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.635397

Rahman, M. S., Linsell, K. J., Taylor, J. D., Hayden, M. J., Collins, N. C., & Oldach, K. H. (2020). Fine mapping of root lesion nematode (Pratylenchus thornei) resistance loci on chromosomes 6D and 2B of wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 133(2), 635-652. doi:10.1007/s00122-019-03495-x

Sissons, M., Pleming, D., Taylor, J., Emebiri, L., & Collins, N. (2018). Effects of heat exposure from late sowing on the agronomic and technological quality of tetraploid wheat. Cereal Chemistry, 95(2), 274-287. doi:10.1002/cche.10027

Lohraseb, I., Collins, N., & Parent, B. (2017). Diverging temperature responses of CO2 assimilation and plant development explain the overall effect of temperature on biomass accumulation in wheat leaves and grains. AoB Plants, 9(1), plw092-1-plw092-13. doi:10.1093/aobpla/plw092

Kamino, L., Singh, D., Pallotta, M., Collins, N., & Park, R. (2016). Mapping of seedling resistance in barley to Puccinia striiformis f. sp. pseudohordei. Journal of Applied Genetics, 57(1), 37-44. doi:10.1007/s13353-015-0304-7

Shirdelmoghanloo, H., Taylor, J., Lohraseb, I., Rabie, H., Brien, C., Timmins, A., . . . Collins, N. (2016). A QTL on the short arm of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) chromosome 3B affects the stability of grain weight in plants exposed to a brief heat shock early in grain filling. BMC Plant Biology, 16(1), 100-1-100-15. doi:10.1186/s12870-016-0784-6

Shirdelmoghanloo, H., Lohraseb, I., Rabie, H., Brien, C., Parent, B., & Collins, N. (2016). Heat susceptibility of grain filling in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) linked with rapid chlorophyll loss during a 3-day heat treatment. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 38(8), 208-1-208-11. doi:10.1007/s11738-016-2208-5

Pinto, R., Lopes, M., Collins, N., & Reynolds, M. (2016). Modelling and genetic dissection of staygreen under heat stress. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 129(11), 2055-2074. doi:10.1007/s00122-016-2757-4

Shirdelmoghanloo, H., Cozzolino, D., Lohraseb, I., & Collins, N. (2016). Truncation of grain filling in wheat (Triticum aestivum) triggered by brief heat stress during early grain filling: association with senescence responses and reductions in stem reserves. Functional Plant Biology, 43(10), 919-930. doi:10.1071/FP15384

Roy, S., Collins, N., & Munns, R. (2016). Abiotic stress genes and mechanisms in wheat. In C. Wrigley, H. Corke, K. Seetharaman, & J. Faubion (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Food Grains (Vol. 4, 2nd ed., pp. 393-397). Academic Press. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-394437-5.00230-8

Lüpken, T., Stein, N., Perovic, D., Habekuß, A., Serfling, A., Krämer, I., . . . Ordon, F. (2014). High-resolution mapping of the barley Ryd3 locus controlling tolerance to BYDV. Molecular Breeding, 33(2), 477-488. doi:10.1007/s11032-013-9966-1

Maphosa, L., Collins, N., Taylor, J., & Mather, D. (2014). Post-anthesis heat and a Gpc-B1 introgression have similar but non-additive effects in bread wheat. Functional Plant Biology, 41(9), 1002-1008. doi:10.1071/FP14060

Arthur, K., Collins, N., Yazarlou, A., & Randles, J. (2014). Nucleotide sequence diversity in Velvet tobacco mottle virus: a virus with a unique Australian pathosystem. Virus Genes, 48(1), 168-173. doi:10.1007/s11262-013-1007-y

Acevedo-Garcia, J., Collins, N., Ahmadinejad, N., Ma, L., Houben, A., Bednarek, P., . . . Panstruga, R. (2013). Fine mapping and chromosome walking towards the Ror1 locus in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 126(12), 2969-2982. doi:10.1007/s00122-013-2186-6

Houston, K., McKim, S., Comadran, J., Bonar, N., Druka, I., Uzrek, N., . . . Waugh, R. (2013). Variation in the interaction between alleles of HvAPETALA2 and microRNA172 determines the density of grains on the barley inflorescence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(41), 16675-16680. doi:10.1073/pnas.1311681110

Shavrukov, Y., Bovill, J., Afzal, I., Hayes, J., Roy, S., Tester, M., & Collins, N. (2013). HVP10 encoding V-PPase is a prime candidate for the barley HvNax3 sodium exclusion gene: evidence from fine mapping and expression analysis. Planta, 237(4), 1111-1122. doi:10.1007/s00425-012-1827-3

Arthur, K., Collins, N., & Randles, J. (2012). Mutation rate in Velvet tobacco mottle virus varies between genomic region and virus variant but is not influenced by obligatory mirid transmission. Virus Genes, 45(3), 575-580. doi:10.1007/s11262-012-0801-2

Rivandi, A., Miyazaki, J., Hrmova, M., Pallotta, M., Tester, M., & Collins, N. (2011). A SOS3 homologue maps to HvNax4, a barley locus controlling an environmentally sensitive Na+ exclusion trait. Journal of Experimental Botany, 62(3), 1201-1216. doi:10.1093/jxb/erq346

Bulgarelli, D., Biselli, C., Collins, N., Consonni, G., Stanca, A., Schulze-Lefert, P., & Vale, G. (2010). The CC-NB-LRR-Type Rdg2a resistance gene confers immunity to the seed-borne barley leaf stripe pathogen in the absence of hypersensitive cell death. PLoS One, 5(9), 1-14. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012599

Shavrukov, Y., Gupta, N., Miyazaki, J., Baho, M., Chalmers, K., Tester, M., . . . Collins, N. (2010). HvNax3-a locus controlling shoot sodium exclusion derived from wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum). Functional & Integrative Genomics, 10(2), 277-291. doi:10.1007/s10142-009-0153-8

Shi, B., Sutton, T., Collins, N., Pallotta, M., & Langridge, P. (2010). Construction of a barley bacterial artificial chromosome library suitable for cloning genes for boron tolerance, sodium exclusion and high grain zinc content. Plant Breeding, 129(3), 291-296. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0523.2009.01762.x

Chen, A., Gusta, L., Brule-Babel, A., Leach, R., Baumann, U., Fincher, G., & Collins, N. (2009). Varietal and chromosome 2H locus-specific frost tolerance in reproductive tissues of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) detected using a frost simulation chamber. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 119(4), 685-694. doi:10.1007/s00122-009-1079-1

Shi, B., Gustafson, J., Button, J., Miyazaki, J., Pallotta, M., Gustafson, N., . . . Collins, N. (2009). Physical analysis of the complex rye (Secale cereale L.) Alt4 aluminium (aluminum) tolerance locus using a whole-genome BAC library of rye cv. Blanco. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 119(4), 695-704. doi:10.1007/s00122-009-1080-8