Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Dr
The University of Western Australia (M080), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
I am an Associate Professor in the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment and the Institute of Agriculture. My main research expertise is in the breeding, genetics, agronomy and ecology of pasture legumes. I have a particular interest in the translation of discoveries in plant physiology, plant pathology, entomology, molecular biology and engineering into applied research outcomes that benefit farmers. I transferred to UWA in January 2019, after 33 years in the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development and two years prior to that with the New South Wales government. I have bred 22 pasture legume cultivars, including 19 subterranean clovers, two lucernes and Neptune messina. My current projects are as the Plant Breeder on a Joint Venture between UWA and PGG Wrightson Seeds to breed new cultivars of annual pasture legumes and I lead an AgriFuture Australia-funded project to develop improved methods of harvesting subterranean clover and annual medic seeds. I also led a recently completed Meat & Livestock Australia-funded project on pre-breeding in annual legumes and various projects in pastures for saline soils, leading to the development of messina as a new agricultural species.
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
22 Apr 1986 → 14 Jan 2019Research Agronomist, NSW Department of Primary Industries
20 Feb 1984 → 14 Apr 1896Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Kaur, P. (Creator), Bayer, P. (Creator), Milec, Z. (Creator), Vrána, J. (Creator), Yuan, Y. (Creator), Appels, R. (Creator), Edwards, D. (Creator), Batley, J. (Creator), Nichols, P. (Creator), Erskine, W. (Creator) & Doležel, J. (Creator), Zenodo, 27 Oct 2016
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.161479 , https://zenodo.org/record/161479#.WoOXsmf187x
Dataset
Abdi, A. (Creator), Nichols, P. (Creator), Kaur, P. (Creator), Wintle, B. (Creator) & Erskine, W. (Creator), Public Library of Science (PLoS), 8 Jan 2020
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223699.s001
Dataset
Erskine, W., Ryan, M. & Nichols, P.
1/07/18 → 30/06/27
Project: Research
Erskine, W., Nichols, P., Foster, K., Guzzomi, A. & Ryan, M.
1/01/18 → 22/04/22
Project: Research