Editorial Contacts

Editor-in-Chief - John Irwin

Professor John Irwin is the Editor-in-Chief of Crop & Pasture Science. John is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Queensland. He has actively researched the areas of plant pathology/plant genetics since he started his career in 1972, published over 175 refereed journal papers or book chapters and has bred or co-bred 10 cultivars of pasture and forage species.

The first 10 years of his career were in the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, three of which were spent at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the remainder in various roles at the University of Queensland.

From 1992-2006 he was CEO of two Cooperative Research Centres, the CRC for Tropical Plant Pathology and the CRC for Tropical Plant Protection. A major focus of both of these CRCs was the development of molecular tools for identifying plant pathogens and disease resistance breeding. The work had a major international impact for several major groups of plant pathogens both endemic and exotic to Australia. These included Phytophthora, Colletotrichum, Fusarium, Ralstonia and others. Pastures and crops researched included lucerne, stylos, oats, cowpea and soybean.

Education activities have been important to John Irwin. He has been principal supervisor to over 30 graduated Masters and PhD students at the University of Queensland, and he has taught undergraduate classes in several areas of plant science.

He has served on national committees of the Grains Research Development Corporation, and as an expert panel member for Import Risk Analyses conducted by Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service and Biosecurity Australia. He has been the Editorial Board Chairman of both the Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, and the Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, and a Senior Editor for Australasian Plant Pathology.

Editor-in-Chief
Professor John Irwin
Crop & Pasture Science
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Qld 4072
Australia
Telephone +61 7 3365 2790
Email j.irwin@uq.edu.au

Publisher - Chris Anderson

Dr Chris Anderson has worked as a Publisher/Senior Managing Editor at CSIRO PUBLISHING since 1988, and before that as a research scientist/postdoctoral fellow at Monash and Latrobe Universities. His main research interests are: plant nutrition, ecophysiology, salinity tolerance and sustainable farming systems. He has also been a team leader in the Plant Sciences Publishing Group at CSIRO PUBLISHING.

Chris has also been actively involved in conducting workshops/discussion seminars on the publishing process for peer-reviewed journals and is keen to foster new authors.

Enquiries about editorial aspects of the Journal should be sent to:

Editor - Crop & Pasture Science
CSIRO PUBLISHING
PO Box 1139 (150 Oxford Street)
Collingwood, Vic. 3066
Australia
Telephone +61 3 9662 7614
Fax +61 3 9662 7611
Email publishing.cp@csiro.au

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