Dennis Greer

Biography

Dr Greer completed his PhD at the University of Otago in 1979 and commenced a research career in horticulture at the Horticulture and Food Research Institute and carried much research at the National Climate Laboratory. Whilst there, Dr Greer had a Visiting Investigator grant at the Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institute of Washington in Palo Alto California in 1984 and was also awarded an OECD Scholarship in Photosynthesis in 1989 to work at the Department of Plant Physiology, University of Umea, Umea Sweden. In 2002, Dr Greer was appointed to the School of Wine and Food Sciences, Charles Sturt University to teach viticulture and wine science students and in 2005 was involved in the successful 'Winegrowing Futures' grant to the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre (2006-2011). In 2012, Dr Greer went on Special Studies leave to the Department of Speciality Crops, University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany and spent 5 months there researching the effects of nitrogen and source-sink effects on the photosynthetic processes of apple tree leaves.

Research Interest

Heat stress in Semillon grapevines. This on-going industry funded research has involved assessing high temperature effects on sugar accumulation of grape berries and evaluating methods to reduce the affect of heat on vines.