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Dr Rebecca Miller

 

Senior Research Fellow

Ph.D.

Telephone:
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: rebecca.miller@sci.monash.edu.au

  
Research areas
  • Plant chemical defences
  • Regulation of plant secondary metabolism
  • Plant-animal interactions in tropical rainforests
  • Thermogenesis and thermoregulation in plants
Selected Publications
  • Webber, B.L. & Miller, R.E. (2008) Gynocardin from Baileyoxylon lanceolatum and a revision of cyanogenic glycosides in Achariaceae. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology (in press)
  • Miller, R.E. &Woodrow, I.E. (2008) Cyanogenesis in Australian tropical rainforests: frequency, distribution and effect of resource availability. Ecology (in press)
  • Grant,N.M., Miller, R.E., Watling, J.R., Robinson, S.A. (2008) Synchronicity of thermogenic activity, alternative pathway respiratory flux, AOX protein content and carbohydrates in receptacle tissues of sacred lotus during floral development. Journal of Experimental Botany 59:705-714
  • Webber, B.L., Miller, R.E., Woodrow, I.E. (2007) Constitutive polymorphic cyanogenesis in the Australian rainforest tree, Ryparosa kurrangii (Achariaceae). Phytochemistry 68: 2068-2074.
  • Simon, J., Miller, R.E., Woodrow, I.E. (2007) Variation in defence strategies in two species of the genus Beilschmiedia across nutrient and rainfall gradients. Plant Biology 9: 152-157.
  • Miller, R.E., Jensen, R., Woodrow, I.E. (2006) Frequency of cyanogenesis in Australian tropical rainforests. Annals of Botany 97: 1017-1044.
  • Miller, R.E., McConville, M.J., Woodrow, I.E. (2006) Cyanogenic glycosides from the rare Australian endemic rainforest tree Clerodendrum grayi (Lamiaceae). Phytochemistry 67: 43-51.
  • Miller, R.E., Simon, J., Woodrow, I.E. (2006) Cyanogenesis in the Australian tropical rainforest endemic Brombya platynema (Rutaceae): chemical characterisation and polymorphism. Functional Plant Biology 33: 477-486.
  • Miller, R.E., Stewart, M., Capon, R.J., Woodrow, I.E. (2006) A galloylated cyanogenic glycoside from the Australian rainforest endemic Elaeocarpus sericopetalus. Phytochemistry 67: 1365-1371.
  • Miller, R.E., Gleadow, R.M., Woodrow, I.E. (2004) Cyanogenesis in tropical Prunus turneriana: characterisation, variation and response to low light. Functional Plant Biology 31: 491-503.
  • Lovelock, C.E. & Miller, R.E. (2002) Heterogeneity in inoculum potential and effectiveness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Ecology 83: 823–832.