Professor Ian Woodrow
| Location |
Botany Tin Alley Building123 Room 123 |
| Phone | +61 3 8344 7503 |
| Fax | +61 3 9347 5460 |
| i.woodrow@unimelb.edu.au | |
| URL | www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/physiology |
University Research Themes
- Biological and medicinal chemistry
- Plant cell and molecular biology
- Plant and food biotechnology
Research Interests
- Eucalypt biotechnology – tissue culture, genetic transformation, mutagenesis, clonal forestry
- Plant secondary metabolism – especially cyanogenesis and terpenoids metabolism
- Metal and metaloid accumulation by plants – especially arsenic, manganese and nickel
Research Group
Key Publications
Goodger, J.Q.D., Heskes, A.M., Mitchell, M.C., King, D.J., Neilson, E.H., Woodrow, I.E. (2010) Isolation of intact sub-dermal secretory cavities from Eucalyptus. Plant Methods 6: 20.
Goodger J.Q.D. & Woodrow I.E. (2010) The influence of micropropagation on growth and coppicing ability of Eucalyptus polybractea. Tree Physiology 30, 285-296.
Fernando, D.R., Mizuno, T., Woodrow, I.E., Baker, A.J.M., Collins, R.N. (2010) Characterization of foliar manganese (Mn) in Mn (hyper)accumulators using X-ray absorption spectroscopy. New Phytologist, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03431.x
Goodger, J.Q.D., Cao, B., Jayadi, I., Williams, S.J., Woodrow, I.E. (2009) Non-volatile components of the essential oil secretory cavities of Eucalyptus leaves: Discovery of two glucose monoterpene esters, cuniloside B and froggattiside A. Phytochemistry 70, 1187-1194.
Webber, B.L., Woodrow, I.E. (2009) Chemical and physical plant defence across multiple ontogenetic stages in a tropical rainforest understorey tree. Journal of Ecology 97, 761-771.
(For a full list of recent publications go to http://www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/physiology/Publications.html)