Dr Julianne Biddle
Adjunct Fellow
School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
Book Chapters
Foale, Mike, Biddle, Julianne, Bazrafshan, Amirhossein and Adkins, Steve (2021). Biology, ecology, and evolution of coconut. Coconut biotechnology: towards the sustainability of the 'Tree of Life'. (pp. 17-27) edited by Steve Adkins, Mike Foale, Roland Bourdeix, Quang Nguyen and Julianne Biddle. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-44988-9_2
Biddle, Julianne, Nguyen, Quang, Mu, Zhihua H., Foale, Mike and Adkins, Steve (2021). Germplasm reestablishment and seedling production: embryo culture. Coconut biotechnology: towards the sustainability of the 'Tree of Life'. (pp. 199-225) edited by Steve Adkins, Mike Foale, Roland Bourdeix, Quang Nguyen and Julianne Biddle. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-44988-9_10
Salum, Uron, Foale, Mike, Biddle, Julianne, Bazrafshan, Amirhossein and Adkins, Steve (2020). Towards the sustainability of the “Tree of life”: An introduction. Coconut Biotechnology: Towards the Sustainability of the 'Tree of Life'. (pp. 1-15) edited by Steve Adkins, Mike Foale, Roland Bourdeix, Quang Nguyen and Julianne Biddle. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-44988-9_1
Adkins, S. W., Biddle, J., Nguyen, Q. T. and Foale, M. (2020). Cocos nucifera coconut. Biotechnology of fruit and nut crops. (pp. 79-91) edited by Richard E. Litz, Fernando Pliego-Alfaro and Jose Ignacio Hormaza. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: CABI International. doi: 10.1079/9781780648279.0079
Journal Articles
Kong, Eveline Yee Yan, Biddle, Julianne, Kalaipandian, Sundar, Bazrafshan, Amirhossein, Mu, Zhihua and Adkins, Steve W. (2025). Improvement of somatic embryo maturation and shoot formation in somatic embryogenesis of Asian coconut varieties. Scientia Horticulturae, 343 114069, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.scienta.2025.114069
Mu, Zhihua, Li, Zhiying, Nulu, Naga Prafulla Chandrika, Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian, Biddle, Julianne M., Bazrafshan, Amirhossein, Kong, Eveline and Adkins, Steve W. (2025). A photomixotrophic system to improve the growth of in vitro-cultured seedlings of coconut (Cocos nucifera L.). Horticulturae, 11 (3) 224, 224-3. doi: 10.3390/horticulturae11030224
Bazrafshan, Amirhossein, Sudarma, Sisunandar, Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian, Biddle, Julianne M., Mu, Zhihua, Kong, Eveline Yee Yan, Nulu, Naga Prafulla Chandrika and Adkins, Steve W. (2025). New method for enhancing coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) embryo dehydration: an important step towards proficient cryopreservation. Plants, 14 (4) 600, 1-14. doi: 10.3390/plants14040600
Mu, Zhihua, Li, Zhiying, Bazrafshan, Amirhossein, Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian, Kong, Eveline Yee Yan, Biddle, Julianne, Nulu, Naga Prafulla Chandrika and Adkins, Steve (2024). Temporary immersion culture: a potential in vitro culture method for the clonal propagation of coconut. Horticulturae, 10 (9) 946, 946. doi: 10.3390/horticulturae10090946
Yang, Chongxi, Nguyen, Van Anh, Nulu, Naga Prafulla Chandrika, Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian, Beveridge, Fernanda Caro, Biddle, Julianne, Young, Anthony and Adkins, Steve W. (2024). Towards Pathogen-Free Coconut Germplasm Exchange. Plants, 13 (13) 1809, 1-21. doi: 10.3390/plants13131809
Kong, Eveline Y. Y. , Biddle, Julianne , Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian and Adkins, Steve W. (2023). Coconut callus initiation for cell suspension culture. Plants, 12 (4) 968, 968. doi: 10.3390/plants12040968
Kong, Eveline Y.Y., Biddle, Julianne, Foale, Mike, Panis, Bart and Adkins, Stephen W. (2021). The potential to propagate coconut clones through direct shoot organogenesis: a review. Scientia Horticulturae, 289 110400, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.scienta.2021.110400
Kalaipandian, Sundaravelpandian, Mu, Zhihua, Kong, Eveline Yee Yan, Biddle, Julianne, Cave, Robyn, Bazrafshan, Amirhossein, Wijayabandara, Kusinara, Beveridge, Fernanda Caro, Nguyen, Quang and Adkins, Steve W. (2021). Cloning coconut via somatic embryogenesis: a review of the current status and future prospects. Plants, 10 (10) 2050, 1-16. doi: 10.3390/plants10102050
Kong, Eveline Y. Y., Biddle, Julianne, Foale, Mike and Adkins, Steve W. (2020). Cell suspension culture: a potential in vitro culture method for clonal propagation of coconut plantlets via somatic embryogenesis. Industrial Crops and Products, 147 112125, 112125. doi: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2020.112125
Biddle, J. M., Linde, C and Godfree, R. C. (2012). Co-infection patterns and geographic distribution of a complex pathosystem targeted by pathogen-resistant plants. Ecological Applications, 22 (1), 35-52. doi: 10.1890/11-0341.1
Conference Papers
Mu, Zhihua, Guo, Xuhong, Biddle, Julianne, Foale, Mike, Li, Zhiying and Adkins, Steve (2020). A newly designed chamber for the acclimatization of coconut plantlets coming from in vitro. 2020 World Congress on In Vitro Biology, San Diego, CA, United States, 6 – 10 June, 2020. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/s11626-020-00455-4
Kong, Eveline Yee Yan, Biddle, Julianne, Sisunandar, Sudarma, Panis, Bart and Adkins, Steve W. (2020). Effect of BAP and TDZ on direct shoot organogenesis in coconut (Cocos nucifera L.). 2020 World Congress on In Vitro Biology, San Diego, CA United States, 6-10 June 2020. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/s11626-020-00453-6
Kong, Eveline Y. Y., Biddle, Julianne and Adkins, Steve W. (2019). The effect of medium type and subculture frequency on the formation of friable embryogenic callus for coconut cell suspension culture. International Tropical Agriculture Conference (TropAg 2019), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11-13 November 2019. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI. doi: 10.3390/proceedings2019036034
Adkins, Steve, Nguyen, Quang, Biddle, Julianne and Foale, Mike (2019). Coconut improvement: tissue culture for the collection, conservation and multiplication of elite coconut germplasm. International Tropical Agriculture Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 11-13 November 2019.
Biddle, Julianne, Nguyen, Quang Thien, Adkins, Steve W. and Foale, Mike (2018). The ON Prime Coconut Cloning Commercialization Project and a potential Australian coconut industry. 48th APCC COCOTECH Conference and Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand, 20-24 August 2018.