Dr Graham Bonnett: improving agricultural productivity

Dr Graham Bonnett is leading a theme of research aimed at improving agricultural productivity whilst ensuring environmental health.

• 20 April 2011 | Updated 14 October 2011

Overview

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications

Current activities

Dr Graham Bonnett leads the Advancing Agriculture and Environmental Health research theme. 

His personal research interests are in understanding the ecology and reproductive biology of sugarcane in order to identify and manage potential risks of genetically modified sugarcane. 

Background

Dr Bonnett comes from an agricultural background in England. 

He studied agricultural science with an emphasis on crops.

After completing his doctorate he continued to work on plant storage carbohydrates at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

He joined CSIRO in 1993 where he has worked in:

• Canberra, 1993–95
• Townsville, 1995–2002
• Brisbane, 2003 to the present.

Dr Bonnett is also:

• a member of the Gene Technology Technical Advisory Committee 
• GTAAC Deputy Chair of ComBio 2011 (September 2011, Cairns).

Academic qualifications

Dr Bonnett has been awarded a:

• Bachelor of Science with Honours in Agricultural Science (Crops), from The University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK), 1985
• Doctor of Philosophy, also from The University of Leeds, 1989.

His doctoral studies focused on the mobilisation of stem reserves in barley.

See a list of scientific papers published by Dr Bonnett on the next page.