Staff profile

Dr Philip J Keane

Reader, Associate Professor

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Life Sciences
Department of Botany
AgriBio, the Centre for AgriBioscience

Biological Sciences II Room 474, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) WARI UADEL., PhD UPNG.

Area of study

Botany

Brief Profile

Dr Philip Keane gained a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Hons) at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute - University of Adelaide in 1968. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1972 for studies of Oncobasidium Theobromae, responsible for vascular-streak dieback, a serious disease of cocoa. He taught at that university before coming to La Trobe University in 1975.

Current major research project:
Selection for resistance to pest and disease problems in cocoa in Sulawesi, Indonesia. (financed by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research)
Post-doctoral fellow : Dr. Peter McMahon

Research interests:

  • Fungal diseases of crop plants and eucalypts
  • The nature of resistance to crop diseases, especially cereal rusts
  • Diseases of cocoa in South East Asia and Papua New Guinea
  • Agricultural development and education in tropical countries
  • Plant disease epidemiology
  • Plant ecology
  • Diversity of macrofungi

 

Teaching Units

BIO1PS - Plant Science

BOT3FEB - Plant Biotechnology - analysis of plant gene function, plant genomics and genetics

AGR3PPD - Agriculture 3 Plant Pests and Diseases - lecturer in plant pathology

Recent Publications

Barber, P.A., Smith, I.W. and Keane, P.J. (2003). Foliar diseases of Eucalyptus spp. grown for ornamental cut foliage. Australasian Plant Pathology 32, 109-111.

Agus Purwantara, Andre Drenth, Sze Flett, Wendy Guppy and Philip J. Keane (2001). Diversity of Phytophthora clandestina isolated from subterranean clover in southern Australia: analysis of virulence and RAPD profiles. European Journal of Plant Pathology 107, 305-311.

Keane, P.J., Kile, G.A., Podger, F.D. and Brown, B.N. (Eds.) Diseases and Pathogens of Eucalypts. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2000, 565pp.

Podger, F.D. and Keane, P.J. (2000). Management of disease in native forests and woodlands. p. 445-475. In Diseases and Pathogens of Eucalypts. Ed. P.J. Keane, G.A. Kile, F.D. Podger and B.N. Brown. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2000.

Park, R.F., Keane, P.J., Wingfield, M.J. and Crous, P.W. (2000). Fungal diseases of eucalypt foliage. p. 153-239. In Diseases and Pathogens of Eucalypts. Ed. P.J. Keane, G.A. Kile, F.D. Podger and B.N. Brown. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2000.

 

 

Older Publications

Launonen, T.M., Ashton, D.H. and Keane, P.J. (1999). The effect of regeneration burns on the growth, nutrient acquisition and mycorrhizae of Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell. (mountain ash) seedlings. Plant and Soil 210, 273-283.

Carnegie, A.J., Ades, P.K., Keane, P.J. and Smith, I.W. (1998). Mycosphaerella diseases of juvenile foliage in a eucalypt species and provenance trial in Victoria, Australia. Australian Forestry 61, 190-194.

Carnegie, A.J., Keane, P.J. and Podger, F.D. (1997). The impact of three species of Mycosphaerella newly recorded on Eucalyptus in Western Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology 26, 71-77.