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Jeff Ellis (plant scientist)

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Jeff Ellis
Born
Jeffrey Graham Ellis

(1953-05-04) 4 May 1953 (age 71)
Adelaide
EducationUniversity of Adelaide (Ph.D. 1981)
Known forCloning and characterizing plant disease resistance genes
Scientific career
FieldsPlant Genetics
InstitutionsCSIRO Plant Industry

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

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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

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  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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