Associate Professor Helen Wallace
BSc(Hons) Qld., PhD Qld.
Position: Associate Professor in Agricultural Ecology
Office: I-2.13A
Tel: +61 7 5430 1228
Fax: +61 7 5430 2887
Email: hwallace@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Biodiversity and Environment
- Ecological Principles of Land and Water Management
- Production Systems Research
- Environment and Health
Research areas
- Seed dispersal by Trigona bees
- Breeding for forestry
- Quality issues in horticultural crops, especially macadamia
- Conservation and reproduction of rare and threatened plants
- Nut production and processing
Profile
Associate Professor Helen Wallace's research focuses on reproduction in plants. Her PhD investigated bees and the pollination of macadamia. Since completing her PhD at the University of Queensland in 1994, Dr Wallace's interests have ranged from purely theoretical questions of how plants reproduce in natural ecosystems, through to applied problems in plant reproduction. For example, she has researched seed dispersal by Trigona bees, how to produce better quality macadamias, breeding commercial plantation forestry trees, and breeding systems and conservation of rare plants.
Dr Wallace has been successful in attracting almost A$400,000 in research funding to USC. The most significant of these grants is a A$192,000 ARC linkage grant to study seed dispersal by bees and breeding trees for forestry, and a A$110,000 grant from Horticulture Australia to study macadamia quality.
Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Associate Professor Helen Wallace are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
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