Doctor Robert Sharwood

Doctor Robert Sharwood

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW,
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD The Australian National University
  • BA Sci The Australian National University

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

Contact

Email:R.Sharwood@uws.edu.au
Extension:1095
Mobile:
Location:L9.G.25
Hawkesbury
Website:

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Sharwood, R., Sharwood, R., Halpert, M., Luro, S., Schuster, G. and Stern, D. (2011), 'Chloroplast RNase J compensates for inefficient transcription termination by removal of antisense RNA', RNA, 12.
  • Whitney, S., Sharwood, R., Sharwood, R., Orr, D., White, S., Alonso, H. and Galmes, J. (2011), 'Isoleucine 309 acts as a C4 catalytic switch that increases ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) carboxylation rate in flaveria', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 6.

Research

Current Projects

Title:Improved understanding of underlying physiology contributing to heat tolerance and water use efficiency in cotton
Years:2013-04-10 - 2014-04-09
ID:P00021293
UWS Researchers:Robert Sharwood
Funding:
  • Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (non ACRG)
Title:Molecular Engineering of Setaria, an emerging model for interrogating C4 photosynthesis
Years:2011-11-09 - 2013-07-31
ID:P00020498
UWS Researchers:Robert Sharwood and Oula Ghannoum
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Previous Projects

Title:Dissecting the roles of pyrophosphate hydrolase (PPH) and poly (A) polymerase (PAP) in chloroplast RNA metabolism
Years:2010-11-02 - 2011-11-01
ID:P00019258
UWS Researchers:Robert Sharwood and Oula Ghannoum
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

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