Dr Shona Wood
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
Journal Articles
Gong, Wenliu, Vinarao, Ricky, Proud, Christopher, Wood, Shona, Snell, Peter, Fukai, Shu and Mitchell, Jaquie (2025). Genomic regions and molecular markers associated with deeper rooting to improve grain yield in aerobic rice (Oryza sativa L.) production systems. Rice, 18 (1) 24, 24. doi: 10.1186/s12284-025-00784-6
Wood, Shona E., Poudel, Barsha, Wright, Graeme C., Dieters, Mark I., Pandey, Manish K. and Ash, Gavin (2023). Development of a rapid phenotyping method to screen for Didymella arachidicola resistance in peanuts. PhytoFrontiers™, 3 (3), 619-628. doi: 10.1094/phytofr-07-22-0078-r
Bertioli, David J., Clevenger, Josh, Godoy, Ignacio J., Stalker, H. T., Wood, Shona, Santos, Joáo F., Ballén-Taborda, Carolina, Abernathy, Brian, Azevedo, Vania, Campbell, Jacqueline, Chavarro, Carolina, Chu, Ye, Farmer, Andrew D., Fonceka, Daniel, Gao, Dongying, Grimwood, Jane, Halpin, Neil, Korani, Walid, Michelotto, Marcos D., Ozias-Akins, Peggy, Vaughn, Justin, Youngblood, Ramey, Moretzsohn, Marcio C., Wright, Graeme C., Jackson, Scott A., Cannon, Steven B., Scheffler, Brian E. and Leal-Bertioli, Soraya C.M. (2021). Legacy genetics of Arachis cardenasii in the peanut crop shows the profound benefits of international seed exchange. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (38) e2104899118, 1-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2104899118
Conference Papers
Mitchell, Jaquie, Checco, Julia, Thai, Tinh Van, Dong, Tung Lam, Tran, Khang, Thanh, Dao Vu Thi, Trinh, Duy, Minh, Luan Ha, Minh, Nguyen Anh, Bui, Ly Chuc, Wood, Shona, Akber, Ali, Muflikh, Yanti Nuraeni, Palaniappan, Gomathy, Prakash, Sangeeta, Ho, Binh, Hong, Tin Nguyen, Quirk, Chris and Aziz, Ammar Abdul (2025). Establishing a sustainable, high-quality smallholder rice value chain in the Mekong Delta: progress and key outcomes. TropAg 2025, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11-13 November 2025.
Mitchell, Jaquie, Wood, Shona, Tran, Khang, Thi, Thanh Dao Vu, Trinh, Duy, Ho, Binh, Palaniappan, Gomathy, Aziz, Ammar Abdul, Checco, Julia, Thai, Van Tinh, Nguyen, Hong Tin, Thoa, Nguyen Thi Kim, Ly, Bui Chuc, Nguyen, Minh, Akber, Md Ali, Muflikh, Yanti Nuraeni, Ha, Minh Luan, Tran, Ngoc Thach, Quirk, Chris, Lam, Dong Tung, Nguyen, Ngoc Le, Ngoc, Ho Thi Nhu and Prakash, Sangeeta (2025). Transforming Vietnam’s rice value chain via a market-led sustainable, traceable, high-quality export market product for the Mekong delta – a quality perspective. 75th Australasian Grains Science Association Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 20-22 August 2025.
Wood, Shona, Sharma, Chahat, Snell, Peter, Prakash, Sangeeta and Mitchell, Jaquie (2025). Developing high-quality long grain rice for northern Australian production systems. 75th Australasian Grains Science Association Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 20-22 August 2025.
Wood, S., Vinarao, R., Gong, W. and Mitchell, J. (2025). Optimising genomic prediction for aerobic rice breeding: model performance, marker density, and training population size. 17th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference, Perth, WA Australia, 4-6 June 2025.
Gong, Wenliu, Vinarao, Ricky, Proud, Christopher, Wood, Shona, Snell, Peter, Fukai, Shu and Mitchell, Jaquie (2024). Genetic improvement of aerobic adaptation in Australian rice. 2024 International Temperate Rice Conference, New Orleans, LA, United States, 5-8 June 2024.
Nguyen, T., Vinarao, R., Wood, S., Proud, C., Fukai, S. and Mitchell, J. (2024). Exploring whether low and high temperature tolerance is mutually exclusive at the reproductive stage in rice. International Temperate Rice Conference 2024, New Orleans, LA United States, 5-8 June 2024.
Wood, S., Proud, C., Vinarao, R., Snell, P. and Mitchell, J. (2023). Coming in from the cold. International Rice Congress 2023, Manila, Philippines, 16-19 October 2023.
Nguyen, Tin, Mitchell, Jaquie, Wood, Shona, Akber, Ali, Palaniappan, Gomathy, Checco, Julia, Aziz, Ammar Abdul and Bui, Ly (2023). Establishing a sustainable rice value chain using SRP tool, 3Ps and 4Ps models in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. International Rice Congress 2023, Manila, Philippines, 16-19 October 2023. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10398650
Mitchell, J., Proud, C., Vinarao, R., Wood, S., Gong, W., Snell, P. and Fukai, S. (2023). Exploring and exploiting high value traits and genomic regions for temperate aerobic rice adaptation. International Rice Congress 2023, Manila, Philippines, 16-19 October 2023.
Mitchell, J., Checco, J., Wood, S., Palaniappan, G., Prakash, S., Abdul Aziz, A., Nguyen, T., Tran, Thach and Quirck, C. (2022). Sustainable rice production in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. TropAg 2022, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 31 October - 2 November 2022.
Wood, S., Proud, C., Snell, P. and Mitchell, J. (2022). Improving disease resistance of Australian tropical long grain rice. TropAg 2022, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 31 October - 2 November 2022.
Research Report
Mitchell, Jaquie, Wood, Shona and Akber, Md. Ali (2023). ACIAR in Vietnam - Connecting smallholder rice farmers to premium export markets. Hanoi, Vietnam: ACIAR Vietnam.
Newspaper Articles
Wood, Shona, Vinarao, Ricky, Snell, Peter and Mitchell, Jaquie (2025, 10 01). Future proofing the Australian rice industry against disease IREC Farmers' Newsletter 36-38.
Vinarao, Ricky, Wood, Shona, Proud, Christopher, Snell, Peter, Fukai, Shu and Mitchell, Jaquie (2025, 10 01). Rice genetics discovery beats cold damage IREC Farmers' Newsletter 28-31.
Vinarao, Ricky, Gong, Wenliu, Proud, Christopher, Wood, Shona, Snell, Peter, Fukai, Shu and Mitchell, Jaquie (2025, 10 01). Aerobic rice systems: less water, deeper roots, higher yield IREC Farmers' Newsletter 25-27.