Dr Lindsay Shaw
Research Fellow
School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
Researcher biography
Dr Lindsay Shaw specialises in understanding the genetics behind yield associated traits in cereal and horticultural crops. Lindsay completed a Bachelor of Biotechnology with Honours and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland on the role of the Dof transcription factor family in wheat development, at CSIRO's Agriculture and Food.
Upon completing her doctorate, Lindsay undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the John Innes Centre Crop Genetics Department in Norwich, UK and began her work on understanding the regulation of flowering time in wheat through the photoperiod pathway. Dr Shaw then returned to CSIRO as an OCE Postdoctoral Fellow working on the regulation of grain size in cereal crops.
Following her postdoctoral research, Lindsay took up the opportunity to continue her work from the UK as a Project Scientist at the University of California Davis Department of Plant Sciences. Her research focused on understanding how genes in the photoperiod pathway interact to regulate flowering and spike development in temperate cereal crops.
Dr Shaw joined the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation in 2019 and her research is focused on the application of emerging genetic and genomic technologies for Horticultural crop improvement.
Publications
Book Chapter
Shaw, Lindsay, Nath, Onkar, Fletcher, Stephen, Henry, Robert, Mitter, Neena and Hayward, Alice (2020). Avocado transcriptomic resources. Reference Module in Food Science. (pp. 544-557) Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-08-100596-5.22733-9
Journal Articles
Dhakal Poudel, Pragya, Cowan, Max, Shaw, Lindsay, De Faveri, Joanne, Topp, Bruce and Alam, Mobashwer (2023). Macadamia Breeding for Reduced Plant Vigor: Progress and Prospects for Profitable and Sustainable Orchard Systems. Sustainability, 15 (19) 14506, 14506. doi: 10.3390/su151914506
Jones, Sophie, Orr, Ryan, Rossouw, Gerhard, Smith, Harley, Beveridge, Christine and Shaw, Lindsay (2023). Managing early fruit drop in mango. Mango Matters, 52, 14-15.
Bottcher, Christine, Shaw, Lindsay, Haberman, Amnon, Goetz, Marc, Beveridge, Christine and Smith, Harley (2022). Developing a physiological framework for managing summer fruit abscission in avocado. Talking Avocados, 33 (3), 57-62.
Nath, Onkar, Fletcher, Stephen J., Hayward, Alice, Shaw, Lindsay M., Kharabian Masouleh, Ardashir, Furtado, Agnelo, Henry, Robert J. and Mitter, Neena (2022). A haplotype resolved chromosomal level avocado genome allows analysis of novel avocado genes. Horticulture Research, 9 uhac157, 1-10. doi: 10.1093/hr/uhac157
Rupawalla, Zeenat, Shaw, Lindsay, Ross, Ian L., Schmidt, Susanne, Hankamer, Ben and Wolf, Juliane (2022). Germination screen for microalgae-generated plant growth biostimulants. Algal Research, 66 102784, 102784. doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2022.102784
Nath, Onkar, Fletcher, Stephen J., Hayward, Alice, Shaw, Lindsay M., Agarwal, Rimjhim, Furtado, Agnelo, Henry, Robert J. and Mitter, Neena (2022). A comprehensive high-quality DNA and RNA extraction protocol for a range of cultivars and tissue types of the woody crop avocado. Plants, 11 (3) 242. doi: 10.3390/plants11030242
Shaw, Lindsay M., Li, Chengxia, Woods, Daniel P., Alvarez, Maria A., Lin, Huiqiong, Lau, Mei Y., Chen, Andrew and Dubcovsky, Jorge (2020). Epistatic interactions between PHOTOPERIOD1, CONSTANS1 and CONSTANS2 modulate the photoperiodic response in wheat. PLoS Genetics, 16 (7) e1008812, 1-28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008812
Shaw, Lindsay M, Lyu, Bo, Turner, Rebecca, Li, Chengxia, Chen, Fengjuan, Han, Xiuli, Fu, Daolin and Dubcovsky, Jorge (2019). FLOWERING LOCUS T2 regulates spike development and fertility in temperate cereals. Journal of Experimental Botany, 70 (1), 193-204. doi: 10.1093/jxb/ery350
Pearce, Stephen, Shaw, Lindsay M., Lin, Huiqiong, Cotter, Jennifer D., Li, Chengxia and Dubcovsky, Jorge (2017). Night-Break Experiments Shed Light on the Photoperiod1-Mediated Flowering. Plant Physiology, 174 (2), 1139-1150. doi: 10.1104/pp.17.00361
Whan, Alex P., Smith, Alison B., Cavanagh, Colin R., Ral, Jean-Philippe F., Shaw, Lindsay M., Howitt, Crispin A. and Bischof, Leanne (2014). GrainScan: a low cost, fast method for grain size and colour measurements. Plant Methods, 10, 23. doi: 10.1186/1746-4811-10-23
Shaw, Lindsay M., Turner, Adrian S., Herry, Laurence, Griffiths, Simon and Laurie, David A. (2013). Mutant Alleles of Photoperiod-1 in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) That Confer a Late Flowering Phenotype in Long Days. PLoS One, 8 (11), e79459. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079459
Shaw, Lindsay M., Turner, Adrian S. and Laurie, David A. (2012). The impact of photoperiod insensitive Ppd-1a mutations on the photoperiod pathway across the three genomes of hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum). Plant Journal, 71 (1), 71-84. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2012.04971.x
Shaw, Lindsay M., McIntyre, C. Lynne, Gresshoff, Peter M. and Xue, Gang-Ping (2009). Members of the Dof transcription factor family in Triticum aestivum are associated with light-mediated gene regulation. Functional & Integrative Genomics, 9 (4), 485-498. doi: 10.1007/s10142-009-0130-2
Conference Papers
Shaw, L. M., Turner, R., Pearce, S., Li, C. and Dubcovsky, J. (2019). Understanding how PHOTOPERIOD1 and FLOWERING LOCUS T2 regulate flowering time and spike development in wheat. TropAg 2019, Brisbane, Australia, 11-13 November 2019.
Nath, O., Shaw, L. M., Hayward, A., Fletcher, S., Albert, V., Henry, R. and Mitter, N. (2019). Avocado genome sequencing and development of genetic markers for breeding and germplasm identification. TropAg 2019, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 11-13 November 2019.
Shaw, L. M., Chen, A. , Morishige, D., Mullet, J. and Dubcovsky, J. (2018). The characterization of Photoperiod1 regulation of flowering time in response to changes in day length. International Plant and Animal Genome XXVI Conference, San Diego, CA, United States, 13-17 January 2018.
Shaw, L. M., Pearce, S., Alvarez, A., Mullet, J. and Dubcovsky, J. (2017). The characterization of Photoperiod1 regulation of flowering time in response to changes in day length. International Plant and Animal Genome XXV Conference, San Diego, CA, United States , 14-18 January 2017.
Pearce, Stephen, Shaw, Lindsay, Lin, Huiqiong, Cotter, Jennifer, Li, Chengxia and Dubcovsky, Jorge (2017). Nightbreak experiments shed light on Photoperiod1-mediated flowering in wheat. Managing global resources for a secure future, Tampa, FL USA, 22-25 October 2017.
Li, Chengxia, Shaw, Lindsay, Alvarez, Alejandra, Lin, Huiqiong, Pearce, Stephen and Dubcovsky, Jorge (2017). Dissection of the wheat flowering pathway using sequenced mutant populations. 13th International Wheat Genetics Symposium, Tulln, Austria, 23-28 April 2017.
Shaw, L. M., Lv, B., Nitcher, R., Li, C., Han, X., Fu, D. and Dubcovsky, J. (2016). Characterization of Flowering Locus T2 in wheat and Brachypodium. International Plant and Animal Genome XXIV, San Diego, CA United States, 8-13 January 2016.
Shaw, Lindsay M., Allen, Sue L. and Helliwell, Chris A. (2013). The regulation of grain size in cereals - improving understanding using the model species Brachypodium distachyon. Wheat Breeding Assembly, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 16-19 July 2013.
Shaw, L. M., Allen, S. L., Whan, A. P., Bischof, L. M. and Helliwell, C. A. (2013). The regulation of grain size in Brachypodium distachyon. 24th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Sydney, NSW Australia, 24-28 June 2013.
Shaw, Lindsay M., Turner, Adrian S. and Laurie, David A. (2011). Ppd-1 is involved in photoperiod response which is differentially regulated across the A, B and D genomes in wheat. Monogram Network Workshop, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 11-13 April 2011.
Shaw, Lindsay M., Turner, Adrian S. and Laurie, David A. (2011). Ppd-1 is involved in photoperiod response which is differentially regulated across the A, B and D genomes in wheat. International Plant and Animal Genome XIX, San Diego, CA, United States, 15-19 January 2011.
Shaw, L. M., McIntyre, C. L., Gresshoff, P. M. and Xue, G. P. (2008). The Dof transcription factor family in wheat. Plant Energy and Water Productivity, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 18-20 September 2008.
Shaw L.M., McIntyre C.L., Gresshoff P.M. and Xue G.P. (2008). The Dof transcription factor family in wheat. The 11th International Wheat Genetics Symposium, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 25-29 August 2008.
Shaw L.M., McIntyre, C.L., Gresshoff, P.M. and Xue, G.P. (2008). Identification and expression analysis of the Dof transcription factor family in wheat. ComBio, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 21-25 September 2008.
Shaw L.M., McIntyre C.L., Gresshoff P.M. and Xue G.P. (2006). An investigation into the potential role of drought down-regulated members of the AP2/ERF family in plant growth and development. 8th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 20-25 August 2006.
Thesis
Lindsay Shaw (2009). The Dof transcription factor family in Triticum aestivum. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland.
Research Reports
Cao, Shoufeng, Hine, Damian, Henry, Robert, Shaw, Lindsay and Mitter, Neena (2020). Evaluation of the potential to expand horticultural industries in northern Australia. Hermit Park, QLD, Australia: CRC for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA).