Carolyn Porter
Position
Technical Officer
Branch
Science & Public Programs
Section
Resources
Email
carolyn.porter@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au
Phone
02 9231 8084
Fax
02 9251 7231
Role
- Provide technical support to Molecular Systematics Research projects
- Manage the Cambridge S360 Scanning Electron Microscope.
Current research projects
- Developing microsatellite libraries for population analysis
- Molecular Systematics of Australian Proteaceae
Research interests
- Australian Restionaceae
- Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis)
Keywords
Evolutionary genetics, Scanning Electron Microscope
Key publications
- Rossetto, M. and Porter, C. (2005). Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci from Eidothea hardeniana, an early Proteaceae. Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 106-108.
- Smith-White, J.L., Summerell, B.A., Gunn, L.V., Rinzin, C., Porter, C. & Burgess, L. (2002). Molecular detection and differentiation of Australian Armillaria species. Australasian Plant Pathology Society 31: 75-79.
- Briggs, B.G., Marchant, A.D., Gilmore, S. and Porter, C.L. (2000). A Molecular Phylogeny of Restionaceae and Allies. In ‘Monocots: Systematics and Evolution’. (Eds K.L. Wilson and D.A. Morrison). pp 661-671. (CSIRO: Melbourne).
- Offord, C.A., Porter, C.L., Meagher, P.F. and Errington, G. (1999). Sexual reproduction and early plant growth of the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis), a rare and threatened Australian conifer. Annals of Botany 84: 1-9.
- Porter, C.L. (1992). Distribution and abundance of Blandfordia cunninghamii Lindley (Blandfordiaceae). Cunninghamia 2(4): 523-532.
- Porter, C.L., Morrison, D.A. and Johnson, K.A. (1992). Morphological variation in the genus Blandfordia (Liliaceae) in relation to its environment. Australian Systematic Botany 5(4): 373-385.
Technical Acknowledgements
- Briggs, B.G. and Johnson, L.A.S. (2004). New combinations in Chordifex (Restionaceae) from eastern Australia and new species from Western Australia. Telopea (in press).
- Skinner, S. (2003). Oedogonium and the Golden Mean: An essay. In Australian EM Newsletter 78: 16-17.
- Thompson, J.A. (2002). An improved non-cryogenic transport and storage preservative facilitating DNA extraction from ‘difficult’ plants collected at remote sites. Telopea 9(4): 755-760.
- Thompson, J.A. and Alonso-Amelot, M.E. (2002). Clarification of the taxonomic status and relationships of Pteridium caudatum (Dennstaedtiaceae) in Central and South America. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 140: 237-238.
- Briggs, B.G. and Johnson, L.A.S. (2001). The genus Desmocladus (Restionaceae) and new species from the south of Western Australia and South Australia. Telopea 9(2): 227-245.
- Briggs, B.G. and Johnson, L.A.S. (2001). New species of Harperia, Loxocarya, Onychosepalum, Platychorda and Tremulina (Restionaceae) in Western Australia. Telopea 9(2): 247-257.
- Walker, J. (2001). A Revision of the genus Atelocauda (Uredinales) and description of Racospermyces gen.nov. for some rusts of Acacia. Australasian Mycologist 20(10): 3-28.
- Briggs, B.G. and Johnson, L.A.S. (2000). Hopkinsiaceae and Lyginiaceae, two new families of Poales in Western Australia, with revisions of Hopkinsia and Lyginia. Telopea 8(4): 477-502.
- Briggs, B.G. and Johnson, L.A.S. (1999). A guide to a new classification of Restionaceae and allied families. In ‘Australian Rushes, Biology, Identification and Conservation of Restionaceae and allied families’. (Eds Meney, K.A. and Pate, J.S.). pp 25-36. (University of Western Australia Press: Nedlands).
- Briggs, B.G. and Johnson, L.A.S. (1998). Georgeantha hexandra, a new genus and species of Ecdeiocoleaceae (Poales) from Western Australia. Telopea 7(4): 307-312.
- Briggs, B.G. and Johnson, L.A.S. (1998). New genera and species of Australian Restionaceae (Poales). Telopea 7(4): 345-373.
- Linder, H.P., Briggs, B.G. and Johnson, L.A.S. (1998). Ecdeiocoleaceae. In ‘The Families and Genera of Flowering Plants IV’. (Ed Kubitzki, K.) pp 195-197. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin).
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