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Professor Sagadevan Mundree

Director, Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities
Institute for Future Environments
IFE Centres
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Sagadevan G. Mundree was born in Durban South Africa on the 1st November 1965. He graduated from the University of Durban–Westville (UDW) in 1988 with a B Paed(Sci) degree. He spent four years teaching biology at Arena Park Secondary in Chatsworth. During this period, he completed his BSc(Hons) degree in the Botany Department at UDW. In 1992, Sagadevan was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to pursue his PhD studies in the Department of Botany and Microbiology at Auburn University (USA). During the subsequent four years, he investigated the molecular determinants of salinity stress tolerance using Nicotiana tabacum as a model plant.

During his PhD studies, Sagadevan received a number of accolades for academic excellence. Sagadevan returned to S.A. in 1997 and took up a Post–Doctoral position in the Botany Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT). In 1998, he was offered a lectureship in the above department. In 1999, he moved to the Microbiology Department where he developed his research further. His research focused on the molecular dissection of abiotic stress tolerance in plants using the monocotyledonous resurrection plant Xerophyta viscosa as a model system. He received the Distinguished Teacher Award at UCT in 2004, and is a member of the South African Academy of Science.

Sagadevan has been inspired by the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in the biological sciences. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of PlantBio, the National Innovation Centre for Plant Biotechnology in 2004 where, together with the support of a highly dedicated Team he played a significant role in developing the Plant Biotechnology Sector in South Africa. Sagadevan was recruited by the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries in February 2007 and led a Team that was responsible for the Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries´ Investments in Research, Development and Extension in all the primary industries of Queensland. Sagadevan is currently Professor and Director of the Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities at Queensland University of Technology.

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Publications

Author publications, as listed on QUT ePrints https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Mundree,_Sagadevan.html

Research areas

AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
Biochemistry and cell biology
INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Related information

Back from the ‘dead’: QUT scientists unlock secrets of Aussie ‘resurrection’ grass https://www.qut.edu.au/news/news?news-id=100705
Tropical Pulses for Queensland - Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) https://grdc.com.au/
Rising from the dead: resurrection grass could provide key to help food crops cope with climate change http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-11/sugars-key-to-resurrection-grass/7021894

Connections

Has association with
Brett Williams  (Researcher)
Next generation mungbean SNP markers  (Research data set)
Thomas Noble  (Researcher)

Collaborators/Industry partners

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/
Australian Mungbean Association http://www.mungbean.org.au/index.html

Contacts

Name: Professor Sagadevan Mundree
Phone: +61 7 07 3138 8386
Fax: +61 7 07 3138 4132

Other

Date record created:
2013-12-05
Date record modified:
2019-11-07T12:41:10
Record status:
Published - Open Access