Dr James Stangoulis
Research Interests
Micronutrients in food systems for improved human health
Current work includes:
- Nutrient management of horticultural and field crops, including the diagnosis and amelioration of nutrient deficiencies.
- Capacity building research facilities (both the CGIAR and NARS) to improve plant nutrition research in developing countries.
- Analysis of staple food crops for nutritional traits (i.e.promoters of absorption such as the prebiotics fructan and the inhibitors such as phytate and polyphenolics) to identify parental material that can be used in plant breeding for improving Fe bioavailability.
- Studying the effects of post-harvest processing on the nutrient quality of staple food crops
- Studying the effects of environment on nutritive quality of staple food crops.
- Studying iron and zinc transport into seeds.
- Identifying physiological mechanisms that plants use to successfully grow on soils that are nutritionally poor and to map these efficient or tolerance traits to identify loci responsible.
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