Joanna Putterill

Joanna Putterill
Putterill in 2024
Born	Joanna Jean Putterill
Alma mater	University of Auckland
Scientific career
Fields	molecular botany
Institutions	University of Auckland
Theses	Par homology and incompatibility in the IncFI plasmid group Molecular strategies for developing aluminium tolerance in plants  (1990)
Website	http://www.sbs.auckland.ac.nz/people/j-putterill

Joanna Jean Putterill is a New Zealand molecular botanist. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. ^[1]

Academic career

After a Master of Science thesis titled 'Par homology and incompatibility in the IncFI plasmid group' ^[2] and a 1985 PhD titled 'Molecular strategies for developing aluminium tolerance in plants' both at the University of Auckland, ^[3] Putterill joined the staff, rising to full professor in 2016. ^[4]

Putterill's research interests are the molecular basis of observed behaviour in plants, especially circadian and annual rhythms. Much research has been collaborative with staff from Plant and Food Research. ^[5]

Putterill has received a number of Marsden grants. ^{[6] [7]} In 2017, she was appointed director for Joint Graduate School in Plant and Food Science, a collaboration with Plant and Food Research. ^[5]

Selected works

• Putterill, Joanna, Frances Robson, Karen Lee, Rüdiger Simon, and George Coupland. "The CONSTANS gene of Arabidopsis promotes flowering and encodes a protein showing similarities to zinc finger transcription factors." Cell 80, no. 6 (1995): 847–857.
• Schaffer, Robert, Nicola Ramsay, Alon Samach, Sally Corden, Joanna Putterill, Isabelle A. Carré, and George Coupland. "The late elongated hypocotyl mutation of Arabidopsis disrupts circadian rhythms and the photoperiodic control of flowering." Cell 93, no. 7 (1998): 1219–1229.
• Fowler, Sarah, Karen Lee, Hitoshi Onouchi, Alon Samach, Kim Richardson, Bret Morris, George Coupland, and Jo Putterill. "GIGANTEA: a circadian clock‐controlled gene that regulates photoperiodic flowering in Arabidopsis and encodes a protein with several possible membrane‐spanning domains." The EMBO Journal 18, no. 17 (1999): 4679–4688.
• Espley, Richard V., Roger P. Hellens, Jo Putterill, David E. Stevenson, Sumathi Kutty‐Amma, and Andrew C. Allan. "Red colouration in apple fruit is due to the activity of the MYB transcription factor, MdMYB10." The Plant Journal 49, no. 3 (2007): 414–427.
• Putterill, Jo, Rebecca Laurie, and Richard Macknight. "It's time to flower: the genetic control of flowering time." BioEssays 26, no. 4 (2004): 363–373.

Patents

• Coupland, George M., and Joanna J. Putterill. "Genetic control of flowering." U.S. Patent 6,077,994, issued 20 June 2000.
• Coupland, George M., Joanna J. Putterill, and Sarah G. Fowler. "Plant control genes." U.S. Patent 6,887,708, issued 3 May 2005.
• Coupland, George, and Joanna Putterill. "Genetic control of flowering." U.S. Patent Application 10/143,849, filed 17 April 2003.

References

1. "Professor Joanna Putterill – The University of Auckland". www.sbs.auckland.ac.nz.
2. "Par homology and incompatibility in the IncFI plasmid group". University of Auckland . Retrieved 22 June 2022.
3. Putterill, Joanna (1990). Molecular strategies for developing aluminium tolerance in plants (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/1853.
4. Science, Faculty of. "Prof Jo Putterill's inaugural lecture is tonight".
5. "Professor Jo Putterill appointed director for Joint Graduate School in Plant & Food Science – The University of Auckland". www.science.auckland.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
6. "University of Auckland Celebrates $19.8M from Marsden Fund – Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz.
7. "$60 million in Marsden funding – some highlights".

External links

• Joanna Putterill on Twitter
• Joanna Putterill publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Publications by Joanna Putterill at ResearchGate