Dr Lara Pretorius
Research Assistant
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Journal Articles
Bonnéry, D. B., Pretorius, L-S., Jooste, A. E.C., Geering, A. D. W. and Gilligan, C. A. (2023). Rational design of a survey protocol for avocado sunblotch viroid in commercial orchards to demonstrate pest freedom. PLoS One, 18 (4) e0277725, 1-16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277725
Roberts, John M. K., Jooste, Anna E. C., Pretorius, Lara-Simone and Geering, Andrew D. W. (2023). Surveillance for Avocado Sunblotch Viroid Utilizing the European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera). Phytopathology, 113 (3), 559-566. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-08-22-0295-R
Cavé-Radet, Armand, Salmon, Armel, Tran Van Canh, Loup, Moyle, Richard L., Pretorius, Lara-Simone, Lima, Oscar, Ainouche, Malika L. and El Amrani, Abdelhak (2023). Recent allopolyploidy alters Spartina microRNA expression in response to xenobiotic-induced stress. Plant Molecular Biology, 111 (3), 309-328. doi: 10.1007/s11103-022-01328-y
Pretorius, Lara-Simone and Geering, Andrew D. W. (2023). Extreme resilience of avocado sunblotch viroid RNA in sampled avocado leaves and fruit. Australasian Plant Pathology, 52 (1), 1-4. doi: 10.1007/s13313-022-00898-1
Pretorius, Lara-Simone, Chandra, Kerri A., Jooste, Anna E.C., Motaung, Lebogang C., Parkinson, Louisamarie E. and Geering, Andrew D.W. (2022). Adaptation of a filter paper method for RNA template preparation for the detection of avocado sunblotch viroid by reverse transcription qPCR. Journal of Virological Methods, 301 114455, 114455. doi: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2022.114455
Moyle, Richard, Pretorius, Lara-Simone, Shuey, Louise S., Nowak, Ekaterina and Schenk, Peer M. (2018). Analysis of the Complete Genome Sequence ofStrain K. Genome Announcements, 6 (7) e00053-18, 1-2. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00053-18
Moyle, Richard L, Pretorius, Lara, Carvalhais, Lilia C and Schenk, Peer M (2017). Complete Nucleotide Sequence of Australian Tomato spotted wilt virus Isolate TSWV-QLD2. Genome announcements, 5 (47) e01267-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01267-17
Pretorius, Lara, Moyle, Richard L., Dalton-Morgan, Jessica, Schwinghamer, Mark W., Crew, Kathy, Schenk, Peer M. and Geering, Andrew D. W. (2017). First fully sequenced genome of an Australian isolate of Cauliflower mosaic virus. Australasian Plant Pathology, 46 (6), 597-599. doi: 10.1007/s13313-017-0520-1
Moyle, Richard L., Carvalhais, Lilia C., Pretorius, Lara-Simone, Nowak, Ekaterina, Subramaniam, Gayathery, Dalton-Morgan, Jessica and Schenk, Peer M. (2017). An Optimized Transient Dual Luciferase Assay for Quantifying MicroRNA Directed Repression of Targeted Sequences. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8 1631, 1631. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01631
Pretorius, Lara, Moyle, Richard L., Dalton-Morgan, Jessica, Hussein, Nasser and Schenk, Peer M. (2016). Complete nucleotide sequence of an Australian isolate of Turnip mosaic virus before and after seven years of serial passaging. Genome Announcements, 4 (6) e0126916. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01269-16
Moyle, Richard, Pretorius, Lara-Simone, Dalton-Morgan, Jessica, Persley, Denis and Schenk, Peer (2016). Analysis of the first complete genome sequence of an Australian tomato spotted wilt virus isolate. Australasian Plant Pathology, 45 (5), 509-512. doi: 10.1007/s13313-016-0435-2
Seminar Paper
Tran, Nga, Pretorius, Lara, Parkinson, Louisa and Geering, Andrew (2024). Innovations in plant biosecurity for the Australian avocado industry. Tropical Research and Education centre, Univerisity of Florida.
Thesis
Pretorius, Lara-Simone (2018). Investigation of virus-induced defence modulations during plant-virus interactions. PhD Thesis, School of Agriculture & Food Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2018.828