ProfessorRichard Trethowan
Director - Academic
Faculty of Science
RESEARCH INTERESTs
Richard is interested in developing crop cultivars that use water more efficiently and better adapt to increasingly hostile production conditions. Genetic variation for stress tolerance can be introduced into commercial cultivars from ancestral forms of some of the world's most important food crops. This work benefits the agriculture industry in many ways: it increases productivity, raises income, and improves the sustainability of farming systems.
A combined genetic and agronomic approach to improving productivity - while maintaining the resource base - is vital in the context of climate change.
Richard's research aligns with the Faculty of Science Research Strengths - Understanding Our Planet, Understanding Life on Earth, Complex Systems, Data and Decisions, Future Foods.
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTImproving wheat yield through increases in heat tolerance of leaf carbon exchangeGrains Research and Development Corporation - GRDC1 May 2023People funded by this grant:
- Trethowan R,
- Salter W,
- Thistlethwaite R
- GRANTInvestigating tolerance of heat resilient wheat germplasm to droughtFoundation for Food and Agriculture Research1 Jan 2023People funded by this grant:
- Salter W,
- Thistlethwaite R,
- Trethowan R,
- Merchant A
- GRANTNovel approach to determining temperature effects on wheat protein composition and quality attributesGrains Research and Development Corporation - GRDC1 Jan 2023People funded by this grant:
- Trethowan R
- GRANTThe critical role of rhizosheath biophysics in plant water availabilityAustralian Research Council (ARC)28 Jun 2022 - 31 Dec 2026People funded by this grant:
- Rabbi S,
- Warren C,
- Young I,
- Trethowan R
- GRANTAccelerating genetic gain in wheat through hybrid breeding in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and PakistanAustralian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)1 Dec 2021 - 30 Jun 2026People funded by this grant:
- Bansal UK,
- Rattu AUR,
- Trethowan R,
- Baig I,
- Liaqat S
- GRANTFeeding chickens in the future - The potential of heat-tolerant wheatSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences (SOLES)1 Jan 2021People funded by this grant:
- Tan D,
- Khoddami A,
- Toghyani M,
- Caldwell R,
- Liu SY
- GRANTImproving the yield stability of lentil under elevated temperaturesGrains Research and Development Corporation - GRDC1 Jan 2021People funded by this grant:
- Trethowan R
- GRANTPROC-9176576: Data Partnerships InitiativeGrains Research and Development Corporation - GRDC1 Jan 2021People funded by this grant:
- Trethowan R
- GRANTPhotosynthetic acclimation to high temperature in wheatGrains Research and Development Corporation - GRDC1 Apr 2019People funded by this grant:
- Bramley H,
- Trethowan R
- GRANTDeployment of Heat Tolerant and Superior Quality Tomato Varieties for Greenhouse Production in QatarQatar National Research Fund1 Jan 2019People funded by this grant:
- Trethowan R
- GRANTHybrid wheat in Africa - increasing productivity and stabilityUK Department for International Development (DFID)1 Apr 2018People funded by this grant:
- Trethowan R
- GRANTFood Security and Environmental Sustainability: An Australian-Arab CollaborationDepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Federal)1 Jan 2018People funded by this grant:
- Trethowan R,
- Brown G,
- Chattha TM
- GRANTExploring opportunities to improve wheat performance to future warmer climates - Advance Queensland FellowshipDepartment of Science Information Technology Innovation (QLD)1 Aug 2017People funded by this grant:
- Tan D,
- Trethowan R,
- Ullah N
- GRANTDigiFarm. A digitally enabled durable agroecosystemDepartment of Agriculture (Federal)1 Jul 2017People funded by this grant:
- Minasny B,
- Whelan B,
- Trethowan R,
- Dickman C,
- Gonzalez LA
- GRANTA national approach to improving heat tolerance in wheat through more efficient carbon allocationGrains Research and Development Corporation - GRDC1 Jul 2016People funded by this grant:
- Tan D,
- Trethowan R,
- Bramley H,
- Merchant A
- GRANTGrain collection, storage and distribution and data management for 4B sub program projects with the CRC for High Integrity Australian PorkPork CRC Ltd1 Jul 2016People funded by this grant:
- Trethowan R
- GRANTIndustrial Transformation Research Program - Legumes for Sustainable AgricultureNSW Department of Industry1 Jul 2016People funded by this grant:
- Bramley H,
- Deaker R,
- Trethowan R,
- Barbour M,
- Merchant A
- GRANTGrains Research and Development Corporation30 Jun 2016 - 30 Jun 2021People funded by this grant:
- Trethowan R
- GRANTAustralian Research Council30 Jun 2016 - 31 Dec 2021People funded by this grant:
- Kaiser B,
- Adams M,
- Trethowan R,
- Mathesius U,
- Colmer T
- GRANTScreening techniques for tolerance to heat in wheat: review and recommendationsGrains Research and Development Corporation - GRDC4 Feb 2016People funded by this grant:
- Tan D,
- Bramley H,
- Trethowan R
- GRANTIncreasing carbon capture by optimising canopy resource distributionGrains Research and Development Corporation - GRDC1 Jan 2016People funded by this grant:
- Sharp P,
- Merchant A,
- Fuentes D,
- Bramley H,
- Gilbert M
- GRANTIntrogression of heat-tolerant genes to broaden genetic variation in current wheat breeding populations - 2016.02.01CGrains Research and Development Corporation - GRDC1 Jan 2016People funded by this grant:
- Tan D,
- Thistlethwaite R,
- Bramley H,
- Trethowan R,
- Buckley T
- GRANTLegumes for sustainable agricultureAustralian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2016People funded by this grant:
- Deaker R,
- Bramley H,
- Denton M,
- Merchant A,
- Sutton T
- GRANTCollaboration Agreement KSW UK, Global Crop Innovations, USYD_Hybrid wheat for food security (TSB Agreement)Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK)1 Sep 2015People funded by this grant:
- Trethowan R
- GRANTDeveloping Zn-dense, high-yielding wheat by molecular marker technologyAustralian Research Council (ARC)1 Jul 2015 - 30 Jun 2019People funded by this grant:
- Trethowan R,
- Tohme J,
- Stangoulis J
