Nimesha Jayaweera Fernando
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Environmental and geoscience
University of Ballarat
Australia
Biography
Nimesha achieved her PhD at University of Melbourne in the school of Land and Environment in 2014. Her PhD research was on wheat grain quality dynamics under elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Mediterranean climate conditions. Following this she joined with the Department of Environment and Primary Industries as a Research Scientist where she investigated phenolic compounds in pulse crops which are having health benefits to human, and identifying their genotypic and environmental variation. Nimesha was awarded one of the prestigious award “Alltech young scientist” in 2013, after competing more than 8,000 of global graduate registrants. Her current research focus on weed competition with crop species under changing climate conditions and aquatic invasive plant species management.
Research Interest
Weed biology Aquatic weed management Invasive plant physiology Grain chemistry and climate change
Publications
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Florentine, S.K., Weller, S., Graz, P., Florentine, A., Javaid, M., Fernando, N., Chauhan, B., Westbrooke, M. 2016. Influence of selected environmental factors on seed germination and seedling survival of the arid zone invasive species Nicotiana glauca R. Graham (tobacco bush), The Rangeland Journal 38 (4) 417-425
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Fernando, N, Humphries, T., Florentine, S., Chauhan, B. 2016. Factors affecting seed germination of Feather fingergrass (Chloris virgata). Weed Science 64 (4), 605-612.
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Fernando, N., Hirotsu, N., Panozzo, J., Tausz, M., Norton, R., Seneweera, S., 2016. Lower grain nitrogen content of wheat at elevated CO2 can be improved through post-anthesis NH4+ supplement. Journal of cereal Science 74, 79-85.
