Dr Linda Tabe: making grains more nutritious

Dr Linda Tabe aims to produce bigger, more nutritious grain by researching how plants move carbon, nitrogen and sulfur compounds into developing grain.

• 16 May 2006 | Updated 24 November 2011

Overview

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications

Current activities

Dr Linda Tabe is researching the manipulation of the pathway of sulfur amino acid biosynthesis in developing seeds in order to produce more nutritious grain legumes.

She is exploring the genetic variation of drought tolerance mechanisms in wheat. Dr Tabe is specifically studying how carbohydrates accumulate in wheat stems during the early part of grain filling, and then move into the grain during the later part of the grain filling period.

Dr Tabe's research also seeks to understand the molecular responses of wheat to a range of biotic (e.g. disease) and abiotic (e.g. drought) stresses.

Background 

Dr Tabe's background includes: 

• plant biotechnology
• general molecular biology
• analysis of gene expression
• cellular protein trafficking.

Academic qualifications

Dr Linda Tabe was awarded a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Biochemistry from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1978.

She received a Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry, also from the University of Adelaide, in 1983.

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