Rosie Bradshaw

Biography

Dr. Rosie Bradshaw is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Genetics, Massey univesity , Newzealand. Her research interests includes  application of molecular and comparative genomics tools to study how fungi interact with plants. she is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. Dr. Rosie Bradshaw is the member of many international affiliations.  She has successfully completed her Administrative responsibilities. she has authored of many research articles/books related to  application of molecular and comparative genomics tools to study how fungi interact with plants.

Research Interest

Associate Professor Bradshaw's main research focus is the application of molecular and comparative genomics tools to study how fungi interact with plants. Her group is interested in plant pathogens, endophytes, forest pathology, mycotoxins, fungal gene clusters and biocontrol. As part of an initiative by the Dothideomycete Comparative Genomics Consortium and the Joint Genome Institute, she was PI for the project to sequence the genome of the pine needle pathogen Dothistroma septosporum. The Bradshaw laboratory elucidated the genetics of dothistromin toxin biosynthesis and discovered it is a virulence factor in needle blight disease. They also found that dothistromin genes are unusual in being dispersed across one chromosome in a 'fragmented cluster' and gathered evidence that this is a fragmented form of a tighter ancestral aflatoxin-like gene cluster. The Bradshaw laboratory's research interests also extend to endophytes, including a project using endophytes to 'immunise' pine trees against disease. In other projects involving endophytes of grass, the group is investigating the molecular basis of how endophytes confer drought tolerance to their plant hosts, as well as the molecular mechanisms of the unusual fungal phenomenon of intercalary growth.