Emeritus Professor Jennifer Anne McComb

School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology,
Division of Science and Engineering
Murdoch University,
Western Australia, 6150

Qualifications:

• BSc (Hons.1) (1964) University of Western Australia
• PhD (1968) University of Western Australia
  

Honours:

• FTSE (1999) Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• FAIAST (2000) Fellow of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology
• Centenary Medal 2003

Research:
My most significant research has been on the following topics. All of this research has been conducted jointly with colleagues and research students.

• Disproof of the dogma that the rot nodule bacterium Rhizobium can only fix nitrogen when symbiotic with a higher plant.
• Development and registration of a new cultivar of the annual pasture legume Medicago polymorpha cv. Serena
• Participating in the selection and propagation of die-back resistant jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata)
• Discovery that Phytophthora cinnamomi can infect jarrah through bark at the base of ponded trees
• Development of salt tolerant clones of Australian trees
• Development of tissue culture techniques for Australian native plants
• Helping initiate a valuable new industry - plantation culture of Santalum album (sandalwood) in the Ord River Irrigation Area
  

I have supervised 32 honours and 21 PhD students with an additional 7 PhDs current.

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