Drew J. King
University of Melbourne
8 Papers
29 Citations
Drew J. King is an academic researcher from University of Melbourne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Eucalyptus polybractea & Tailings. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 8 publications.
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Papers
Phytostabilisation of arsenical gold mine tailings using four Eucalyptus species: Growth, arsenic uptake and availability after five years
TL;DR: E. cladocalyx, in particular, is an ideal candidate for the long-term phytostabilisation of As-contaminated land and mine tailings and the variation detected in both As accumulation and growth is also promising for the selection of desirable traits.
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Regulation of oil accumulation in single glands of Eucalyptus polybractea.
TL;DR: Leaf and plant oil composition is determined not by a mosaic of glands specializing in producing a single or a small group of compounds, but rather by glands with remarkably similar capacities for terpenoid biosynthesis, although oil concentration, limited by gland capacity, may be linked to leaf expansion rather than biosynthetic capacity.
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Terpene deployment in Eucalyptus polybractea; relationships with leaf structure, environmental stresses, and growth.
TL;DR: Terpene deployment was examined in a population of Eucalyptus polybractea trees, and both terpenes and total carbon-based secondary metabolites showed positive correlations with growth, suggesting plants gain a growth advantage by deploying greater amounts of secondary metabolites.
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Isolation of intact sub-dermal secretory cavities from Eucalyptus
Jason Q. D. Goodger,Allison M. Heskes,Madeline C. Mitchell,Drew J. King,Elizabeth H.J. Neilson,Ian E. Woodrow +5 more
TL;DR: The protocol described herein is likely to be adaptable to a range of Eucalyptus species with sub-dermal secretory cavities, and should find wide application in studies of the developmental and functional biology of these structures, and the biosynthesis of the plant natural products they contain.
The accumulation of terpenoid oils does not incur a growth cost in Eucalyptus polybractea seedlings.
TL;DR: It is concluded that oil accumulation is associated with factors that promote growth and if there is a cost to oil deployment, it could not be detected using the experimental design employed here.
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