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Dr Daniel Tan

Research interests

My research interests are focused on plant physiology and crop modelling.

I have developed a broccoli development model for vegetable growers in southeast Queensland. My ongoing work on abiotic stress and nutrition in cotton has been supported by the Cotton Research and Development Corporation, and the Cotton Catchment Communities Cooperative Research Centre. I am also investigating environmental effects on yield components of cotton, cocoa, and sorghum to improve crop yield potential.

I currently have collaborative research links at CSIRO Plant Industry (Narrabri), Applied Horticultural Research (Sydney), Cocoa and Coconut Institute (Papua New Guinea), Texas A&M University (USA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (Lubbock, Texas, USA).

Background

Daniel Tan graduated from the University of Queensland with a BAppSc(Hort Tech)(Hons 1) in 1991 and a PhD in 1999. In 1992, he was a senior executive at Keppel Land International Ltd in Singapore, and in 2003, he accepted a lectureship in agronomy in the Faculty of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources (FAFNR).

Daniel has been the Dean’s nominee (member) of the Plant Science Management Committee and the FAFNR representative to the Faculty of Science Publicity Committee since 2004. He has been the unit coordinator of The Rural Environment (AFNR1001) and Climate and the Environment (AFNR1002) since 2004. He has also been the degree coordinator for the Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and the Bachelor of Horticultural Science since 2007. Recently, Daniel has been part of the organising committee for the FAFNR symposium : Facing climate change – research on adaptation of agro-ecosystems on 13 June 2008.

Daniel has been a member of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (AIAST) since 1991. In 2005, he was elected to the Management Committee of AIAST (NSW Division), and represented AIAST in the Department of Education Science and Training (DEST) Steering Committee for audit of Science, Engineering and Technology Skills. Since 2006, he was been Vice President of the NSW Division, and a trustee of the Lorna Byrne Leadership Awards Trust (LBLAT) established for the purposes of providing financial assistance for agricultural students to attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) course held in NSW. In recent years, he has presented papers at the International Crop Science Congress in Brisbane, the World Congress on Allelopathy in Wagga Wagga and the 4th International Cotton Conference in Texas, U.S.A.

Recent publications

  • Conaty, W.C., Tan, D.K.Y., Constable, G.A., Sutton, B.G., Field, D.J., Mamum, E.A. Agronomy & soils: Genetic variation for waterlogging tolerance in cotton (2008) Journal of Cotton Science, 12 (2), pp. 53-61.
  • Odeh IOA and Tan DKY (2007). Expanding biofuel production in Australia: opportunities beyond the horizon. Farm Policy Journal 4, 29-39.
  • Wu H, Walker S, Rollin MJ, Tan DKY, Robinson G, Werth J (2007). Germination, persistence and emergence of flaxleaf fleabane (Conyza bonariensis L. Cronq.). Weed Biology and Management 7, 192-199.
  • Tan DKY, Daley AT and Wu HW (2007) Allelopathic potential of lippia (Phyla canescens) on germinating seeds. Allelopathy Journal 19, 257-266.
  • McDowell AJ, Bange MP and Tan DKY (2007). Cold shock at 10 degrees C for 10 and 20 nights does not reduce cotton tissue viability in vegetative and flowering cotton plants. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 47, 198-207.
  • Wood AW, Tan DKY, Mamun EA and Sutton DKY (2006). Sorghum can compensate chilling-induced grain loss. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 192, 445-451.
  • Tan DKY, Birch CJ, Wearing AH and Rickert KG (2000) Predicting broccoli development: I. Development is predominantly determined by temperature rather than photoperiod. Scientia Horticulturae 84, 227-243.
  • Tan DKY, Birch CJ, Wearing AH and Rickert KG (2000). Predicting broccoli development: II. Comparison and validation of thermal time models. Scientia Horticulturae 86, 89-101.
  • Tan DKY, Wearing AH, Rickert KG, Birch CJ and Joyce DC (1999). Freeze-induced reduction of broccoli yield and quality. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 39, 771-780.
  • Tan DKY, Wearing AH, Rickert KG and Birch CJ (1999). Broccoli yield and quality can be determined by cultivar and temperature but not photoperiod in south-east Queensland. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 39, 901-909.
  • Tan DKY, Wearing, AH, Rickert KG and Birch CJ (1998) Detection of floral initiation in broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var. italica Plenck) based on electron micrograph standards of shoot apices. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 38, 313-318.