New Cultivar Innovation
Dr Kimberley Snowden
Principal Scientist, Team Leader for Plant Development
My expertise is in plant developmental biology, with a cellular and molecular biology background. My work has focused on understanding the genetic controls of plant architecture, particularly branching. Recently, much of this work has been on the strigolactone (SL) signal transduction pathway. SL is a plant hormone that controls plant branching, leaf senesence, plant height, stem and root growth. SL also has a role in interpreting environmental conditions to control plant growth (eg nutrient and light status). My team and I are working to develop methods to generate new plant forms to allow plants to be grown in new environments (such as in controlled environment agriculture).