Staff profile

Dr Alison Kellow

Associate Lecturer, Herbarium Curator

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Life Sciences
Department of Botany

Biol Sci 1, room 402, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD (Natural Resource Sciences) University of Adelaide; Grad. Dip. Env. Sci. Monash University; BSc (Hons) University of Melbourne

Area of study

Botany

Brief profile

Practical Coordinator for 2nd year Botany subjects and Herbarium Curator

Teaching units

BOT2ILP  Inner Life of Plants

BOT2PDE  Plant Diversity and Ecology

Recent publications

Bayly, M. J.; Kellow, A. V. (2006).  An Illustrated Guide to New Zealand Hebes.  Te Papa Press, Wellington.

Mitchell, K. A., Kellow, A. V., Bayly, M. J., Markham, K. R., Brownsey, P. J., Garnock-Jones, P. J. (2007)  Composition and distribution of leaf flavonoids in Hebe and Leonohebe (Plantaginaceae) in New Zealand — 2. “Apertae”, “Occlusae”, and “Grandiflorae”.  New Zealand Journal of Botany 45

Markham, K.R.; Mitchell, K. A.; Bayly, M. J.; Kellow, A. V.; Brownsey, P. J.; Garnock-Jones, P. J. (2005).  Composition and taxonomic distribution of leaf flavonoids in Hebe and Leonohebe (Plantaginaceae) in New Zealand — 1.  “Buxifoliatae”, “Flagriformes” and Leonohebe.  New Zealand Journal of Botany 43: 165–203.

Bayly, M. J.; Kellow, A. V. (2004).  Proposal to reject the name Veronica decussata (Plantaginaceae).  Taxon 53: 571–572.

Kellow, A. V., Sedgley, M., and van Heeswijck, R. (2004).  Interaction between Vitis vinifera and grape phylloxera: changes in root tissue during nodosity formation.  Annals of Botany 93: 581–590.

Bayly, M. J., Kellow, A. V., Ansell, R., Mitchell, K., and Markham, K. R. (2004).  Geographic variation in Hebe macrantha (Plantaginaceae): morphology and flavonoid chemistry.  Tuhinga, Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 15, 27–41.

Bayly, M. J. and Kellow, A. V.  (2004) Lectotypification of names of New Zealand members of Veronica and Hebe (Plantaginaceae).  Tuhinga, Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 15, 43–52.

Kellow, A. V., Bayly, M. J., Mitchell, K. A., Markham, K. R., and Brownsey, P. J. (2003).  A taxonomic revision of Hebe informal group “Connatae” (Plantaginaceae), based on morphology and flavonoid chemistry.  New Zealand Journal of Botany 41, 613–635.

Kellow, A. V., Bayly, M. J., Mitchell, K. A., Markham, K. R., and Garnock-Jones, P. J. (2003).  Variation in morphology and flavonoid chemistry in Hebe pimeleoides (Scrophulariaceae), including a revised subspecific classification.  New Zealand Journal of Botany 41, 233–253.

Bayly, M. J., Kellow, A. V., de Lange, P. J., Mitchell, K, Markham, K. R., Garnock-Jones, P. J., and Brownsey, P. J. (2003): Geographic variation in morphology and flavonoid chemistry in Hebe pubescens and H. bollonsii (Scrophulariaceae), including a new infraspecific classification for H. pubescens.  New Zealand Journal of Botany 41, 23–53.

Bayly, M. J., Kellow, A. V., Mitchell, K., Markham, K. R., de Lange, P. J., Harper, G. E., Garnock-Jones, P. J. and Brownsey, P. J. (2002).  Descriptions and flavonoid chemistry of new taxa in Hebe sect. Subdistichae (Scrophulariaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 40, 571–602.

Kellow, A. V., McDonald, G., Corrie, A. M., and van Heeswijck, R.  (2002)  In vitro assessment of grapevine resistance to two populations of phylloxera from Australian vineyards.  Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research 8, 109–116.

 

Research projects

Molecular phylogeny of Tmesipteris.