Jeff Ellis (plant scientist)

Jeffrey Graham (Jeff) Ellis FRS FAA (born 4 May 1953 in Adelaide) is an Australian plant scientist, and Program Leader at CSIRO Plant Industry.[1][2]

Life

He earned a BAgSc in 1976, and a PhD in 1981, from the University of Adelaide.[3] In 1984, as a Research Scientist in CSIRO Plant Industry, he worked on the identification of transcriptional control elements in the promoters of the maize alcohol dehydrogenase gene and the Agrobacterium T-DNA gene octopine synthase. Ellis and his research team were among the first to clone and characterize plant disease resistance genes.[4]

References
  1. "Our Team".
  2. Australian Academy of Science – Fellowship list Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Ellis, Jeffrey Graham – CSIROpedia". Archived from the original on 23 October 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  4. Staskawicz, Brian J.; Ausubel, Frederick M.; Baker, Barbara J.; Ellis, Jeffrey G.; Jones, Jonathan D. G. (5 May 1995). "Molecular Genetics of Plant Disease Resistance". Science. 268 (5211): 661–667. Bibcode:1995Sci...268..661S. doi:10.1126/science.7732374. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 7732374. S2CID 6154978.
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