{{short description|Australian scientist and plant physiologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2020}}
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'''Christine Beveridge''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|FAA}} is an Australian scientist and plant physiologist whose research focuses on the shoot architecture of plants, shrubs and trees. She is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland, Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture,<ref>{{Cite web|title=$35 million for a new research centre to grow Australian agriculture|url=https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2019/10/35-million-new-research-centre-grow-australian-agriculture|url-status=live|access-date=10 September 2021|website=University of Queensland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017162313/http://www.uq.edu.au:80/news/article/2019/10/35-million-new-research-centre-grow-australian-agriculture |archive-date=17 October 2019 }}</ref> and affiliated professor at the Centre for Crop Science at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Professor Christine Beveridge – UQ Researchers|url=https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/518|access-date=2020-07-29|website=University of Queensland}}</ref>
Beveridge has a BSc and PhD from the University of Tasmania. She was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-05-25|title=Business leader and top researchers recognised with high science honour|url=https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/business-leader-and-top-researchers-recognised-high-science|access-date=2020-07-29|website=Australian Academy of Science|language=en}}</ref>
In 2018 Beveridge was awarded the ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellowship<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Beveridge, Christine – Biographical entry|url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006257b.htm|access-date=2020-07-29|website=Encyclopedia of Australian Science|language=en-gb}}</ref> to research "the genetic mechanisms of shoot branching in agricultural and horticultural plants".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-08-03|title=Fellows receive prestigious ARC Laureate Fellowships|url=https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/fellows-receive-prestigious-arc-laureate-fellowships|access-date=2020-07-29|website=Australian Academy of Science|language=en}}</ref> In the same year she was elected president of the International Plant Growth Substances Association.<ref name=":0" />
== Selected publications == {{Scholia}} * {{Cite journal|last1=Beveridge|first1=Christine Anne|last2=Kyozuka|first2=Junko|date=February 2010|title=New genes in the strigolactone-related shoot branching pathway|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1369526609001514|journal=Current Opinion in Plant Biology|language=en|volume=13|issue=1|pages=34–39|doi=10.1016/j.pbi.2009.10.003|pmid=19913454|bibcode=2010COPB...13...34B |url-access=subscription}} * {{Cite journal|last1=Barbier|first1=Francois F.|last2=Dun|first2=Elizabeth A.|last3=Kerr|first3=Stephanie C.|last4=Chabikwa|first4=Tinashe G.|last5=Beveridge|first5=Christine A.|date=March 2019|title=An Update on the Signals Controlling Shoot Branching|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1360138518302887|journal=Trends in Plant Science|language=en|volume=24|issue=3|pages=220–236|doi=10.1016/j.tplants.2018.12.001|pmid=30797425|bibcode=2019TPS....24..220B |s2cid=73475224 |url-access=subscription}} * {{Cite journal|last1=Carvalhais|first1=Lilia C.|last2=Rincon-Florez|first2=Vivian A.|last3=Brewer|first3=Philip B.|last4=Beveridge|first4=Christine A.|last5=Dennis|first5=Paul G.|last6=Schenk|first6=Peer M.|date=March 2019|title=The ability of plants to produce strigolactones affects rhizosphere community composition of fungi but not bacteria|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2452219818301162|journal=Rhizosphere|language=en|volume=9|pages=18–26|doi=10.1016/j.rhisph.2018.10.002|bibcode=2019Rhizo...9...18C |s2cid=91287127 |url-access=subscription}} * {{Cite journal|last1=Chesterfield|first1=Rebecca J.|last2=Vickers|first2=Claudia E.|last3=Beveridge|first3=Christine A.|date=July 2020|title=Translation of Strigolactones from Plant Hormone to Agriculture: Achievements, Future Perspectives, and Challenges|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1360138520302016|journal=Trends in Plant Science|volume=25|issue=11|language=en|pages=1087–1106|doi=10.1016/j.tplants.2020.06.005|pmid=32660772|bibcode=2020TPS....25.1087C |s2cid=220521454 |url-access=subscription|hdl=10072/416494|hdl-access=free}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [https://biological-sciences.uq.edu.au/profile/5580/christine-beveridge University of Queensland profile] * [https://www.science.org.au/profile/christine-beveridge Australian Academy of Science profile] * [https://www.womeninresearch.org.au/christine-beveridge Women in Research podcast]
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