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Rana Ellen Munns FAA〔Australian Academy of Science (http://www.science.org.au/fellowship-list)〕 and ISI highly cited,〔Thomson Reuters Citation and Innovation Awards 2012 (http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com.au/citation_innovation_awards_2012/)〕 is recognised as a world-leading authority on the mechanisms of salinity tolerance in crop plants.〔Encyclopedia of Australian Science (http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005022b.htm)〕 Her primary research has been on dissecting and demonstrating the relative importance of traits that underpin salinity tolerance. She characterised the critical plant processes involved in tolerance of salinity, and showed what distinguishes salinity stress from drought stress. This work produced a highly sensitive technique for identifying salt-tolerant plants, and discovery of important genes for salt tolerance. Recently she discovered novel genes in an ancestral wheat that control the uptake of sodium and prevent it accumulating in leaves. These genes are being transferred to durum wheat and bread wheat cultivars, with the aim of improving grain yield in saline soil. The work resulted in developing a breeding line which yields 25% more than its parent on saline soils in farmers' fields.〔Munns R, James RA, Xu B, Athman A, Conn SJ, Jordans C, Byrt CS, Hare RA, Tyerman SD, Tester M, Plett D, Gilliham M (2012) Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral transporter gene. Nature Biotechnology 30:360-364〕 == Career == BSc (Hons 1st Class) 1966 Biochemistry Department, University of Sydney Doctor of Philosophy 1972, CSIRO Plant Physiology Unit, University of Sydney. Chloroplast Development 1973 – 1976 Senior Tutor, Macquarie University, NSW 1977 – 1980 Research Fellow, Department of Agronomy, University of Western Australia 1981-2005 Research Scientist CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra 2005-2010 Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra 2011–present Honorary Fellow, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra 〔CSIRO (http://www.csiro.au/people/rana.munns.aspx)〕 2011-2013 Winthrop Research Professor, School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia 2014 – present Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, jointly with School of Plant Biology〔ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (http://www.plantenergy.uwa.edu.au/people/)〕 Former Editor-in-chief of ''Functional Plant Biology'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rana Ellen Munns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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