Ian Dundas

Biography

Ian is originally an agricultural science graduate of the University of Queensland and investigated the Cytogenetics and crossability of the pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) with its wild Australian relatives in Atylosia for his PhD. He then spent 2 years as an International Intern at ICRISAT in India. Since the early 1990s he has been producing rust resistant wheat lines with shortened alien chromosome fragments by non-GM methods and providing them to wheat breeding programs. Together with Dawn Verlin, he is searching the wild relatives of wheat in the genera Triticum, Aegilops, Thinopyrum and Amblyopyrum for new resistance genes against stem, leaf and stripe rusts and providing them in suitable forms to wheat breeding programs around Australia and the World. This research involves assessing genetic stocks generously provided by overseas donors, isolating the resistance gene to an alien chromosome, and transferring the alien chromosome segment carrying the resistance gene to a wheat chromosome by chromosome engineering. Our research is part of the Australian Cereal Rust Control Program which also comprises the following institutions:

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc