Professor Frederik Botha
Honorary Professor
Centre for Plant Science (QAAFI)
Honorary Professor
Centre for Crop Science
Journal Articles
Hoang, Nam V., Furtado, Agnelo, Thirugnanasambandam, Prathima P., Botha, Frederik C. and Henry, Robert J. (2018) De novo assembly and characterizing of the culm-derived meta-transcriptome from the polyploid sugarcane genome based on coding transcripts. Heliyon, 4 3: . doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00583
Marquardt, Annelie, Scalia, Gerard, Wathen-Dunn, Kate and Botha, Frederik C. (2017) Yellow Canopy Syndrome (YCS) in sugarcane is associated with altered carbon partitioning in the leaf. Sugar Tech, 1-9. doi:10.1007/s12355-017-0555-1
Hoang, Nam V., Furtado, Agnelo, O'Keeffe, Angela J., Botha, Frederik C. and Henry, Robert J. (2017) Association of gene expression with biomass content and composition in sugarcane. PLoS One, 12 8: . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0183417
Hoang, Nam V., Furtado, Agnelo, Mason, Patrick J., Marquardt, Annelie, Kasirajan, Lakshmi, Thirugnanasambandam, Prathima P., Botha, Frederik C. and Henry, Robert J. (2017) A survey of the complex transcriptome from the highly polyploid sugarcane genome using full-length isoform sequencing and de novo assembly from short read sequencing. BMC Genomics, 18 1: 395. doi:10.1186/s12864-017-3757-8
Botha, Frederik C. (2017) Sugarcane RD&E: over managed and underperforming?. Sugar Industry, 142 2: 104-111.
Hoang, Nam V., Furtado, Agnelo, Donnan, Laura, Keeffe, Eloise C., Botha, Frederik C. and Henry, Robert J. (2016) High-throughput profiling of the fiber and sugar composition of sugarcane biomass. Bioenergy Research, 1-17. doi:10.1007/s12155-016-9801-8
Marquardt, Annelie, Scalia, Gerard, Joyce, Priya, Basnayake, Jaya and Botha, Frederik C. (2016) Changes in photosynthesis and carbohydrate metabolism in sugarcane during the development of Yellow Canopy Syndrome. Functional Plant Biology, 43 6: 523-533. doi:10.1071/FP15335
Boussiengui-Boussiengui, Gino, Groenewald, Jan-Hendrik and Botha, Frederik C. (2015) Metabolic Changes Associated with the Sink-Source Transition During Sprouting of the Axillary Buds on the Sugarcane Culm. Tropical Plant Biology, 9 1: 1-11. doi:10.1007/s12042-015-9158-8
Hoang, Nam V., Furtado, Agnelo, Botha, Frederik C., Simmons, Blake A. and Henry, Robert J. (2015) Potential for genetic improvement of sugarcane as a source of biomass for biofuels. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 3 1-15. doi:10.3389/fbioe.2015.00182
Botha, Frikkie (2014) Selecting for greater profitability. Australasian Biotechnology, 24 3: 54-55.
Conference Papers
Marquardt, Annelie, Wathen-Dunn, Kate, Henry, Robert J. and Botha, Frederik C. (2017). There's yellow, and then there's yellow-Which one is YCS?. In: 39th Conference of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists (ASSCT 2017). 39th Conference of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists (ASSCT 2017), Cairns, Australia, (89-98). 3-5 May 2017.
Marquardt, Annelie, Scalia, Gerard, Wathen-Dunn, Kate and Botha, Frederik C. (2017). Yellow Canopy Syndrome (YCS) in Sugarcane is Associated with Altered Carbon Partitioning in the Leaf. In: 29th Congress of the International-Society-of-Sugar-Cane-Technologists (ISSCT), Chiang Mai Thailand, (647-655). Dec 05-08, 2016. doi:10.1007/s12355-017-0555-1