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Prof. John Hamill

Professor

Ph.D. University of Nottingham

Telephone: +61-3-9905-3850
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: john.hamill@sci.monash.edu.au

Prof John Hamill
Research areas
  • Molecular physiology of desiccation tolerance in resurrection plants
  • Molecular control of secondary metabolism in plants and plant tissues
    current focus on alkaloid biosynthesis and effects on plant : insect interactions
  • Improvement of commercially important eucalypts via biotechnology

Honours projects for prospective students

Recent publications
  • Cane KA, Mayer M, Michael AJ, Lidgett AJ and. Hamill JD (2005)Molecular analysis of alkaloid metabolism in AABB vs aabb genotype Nicotiana tabacum L in response to wounding of aerial tissues and methyl jasmonate-treatment of cultured roots. Functional Plant Biology 32 : 305 - 320 (PDF 522KB)
  • Sinclair SJ, Johnson RJ and Hamill, JD (2004) Analysis of wound-induced expression in Nicotiana species with contrasting alkaloid profiles. Functional Plant Biology 31: 721- 729 (PDF 2.5MB)
  • Chintapakorn Y and Hamill J.D. (2003) Antisense-mediated down regulation of putrescine N-methyltransferase activity in transgenic Nicotiana tabacum L. can lead to elevated levels of anatabine at the expense of nicotine Plant Molecular Biology 53 : 87 - 105 (PDF 902KB)
  • Neale, A.D., Blomstedt, C.K., Bronson, P., Le, T.-N., Guthridge, K., Evans, J., Gaff, D.F. and Hamill, J.D. (2000) The isolation of genes from the resurrection grass Sporobolus stapfianus which are induced during severe drought stress Plant Cell and Environment 23 : 265-277 (PDF 1.1MB)
  • Bandyopadhyay, S. and Hamill, J.D. (2000) Ultrastructural studies of somatic embryos of Eucalyptus nitens and comparisons with zygotic embryos found in mature seeds Annals of Botany 86 : 237-244 (PDF 384KB)
  • Sinclair, S.J., Murphy, K. J., Birch, C.D and Hamill, J.D. (2000 )Molecular Characterisation of Quinolinic Acid Phosphoribosyltransferase (QPRTase) In Nicotiana Plant Molecular Biology 44 : 603 - 617 (PDF 359KB)

Complete Publication list (PDF 241KB)

Nicotiana action slide (PDF 295KB)

Louisa with tree ferns Dicksonia australis

Louisa with tree ferns Dicksonia australis