Dr Jane O'Sullivan
Dr

Jane O'Sullivan

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Background

Plant nutrition, specialising in tropical root crops.

Since joining the University of Queensland in 1992, Dr. O'Sullivan has completed a series of projects characterising deficiencies and toxicities of mineral nutrients, in species of sweetpotato, aroids and yams, and identifying and remediating nutritional disorders in semi-subsistence production contexts in collaboration with project partners in Pacific Island countries.

Availability

Dr Jane O'Sullivan is:
Available for supervision
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Fields of research

Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences Crop and pasture production Environmental Sciences

Qualifications

  • Bachelor, University of Melbourne
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne

Research interests

  • Population growth and its impacts

    The environmental, social, micro- and macro-economic impacts of population growth, and the efficacy of policy and program options addressing it.

  • Demographic ageing

    Critiquing the basis and motives for negative messaging about demographic ageing and advancing more objective and balanced analysis.

  • Carbon pricing as a response to climate change

    Advantages of consumption-basis accounting and charging for greenhouse gas emissions, and risks and misconceptions around emissions trading.

  • Food security

    Multidimensional challenges of meeting the food demands of the global population while preserving or restoring environmental function and biodiversity.

  • Crop Nutrition

    Mineral nutrient deficiencies and toxicities, particularly of tropical root crops.

  • Low input and semi-subsistence farming systems

    Improving productivity and sustainability of smallholder agriculture in the tropics.

Search Professor Jane O'Sullivan’s works on UQ eSpace

41 works between 1998 and 2023
All (41) Journal Article (23) Book Chapter (8) Conference Publication (9) Book (1)

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1998

Journal Article

Better nutrition for the improvement of sweetpotato and taro yields in the South Pacific

Halavatau, Siosiua M., O'Sullivan, Jane N., Asher, Colin J. and Blamey, F. Pax C. (1998). Better nutrition for the improvement of sweetpotato and taro yields in the South Pacific. Tropical Agriculture, 75 (1-2), 6-12.

Better nutrition for the improvement of sweetpotato and taro yields in the South Pacific

Past funding

  • 2007 - 2008
    Potential contribution of improved fallow species to Potassium nutrition of sweetpotato
    Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
    Open grant
  • 2001 - 2004
    Soil fertility management for meeting the nutrient requirements of root crops in the North of Viet Nam
    AusAID-Australian Agency for International Development
    Open grant
  • 1999 - 2006
    Diagnosis and correction of Nutritional Disorders of Yams
    Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
    Open grant

Availability

Dr Jane O'Sullivan is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Completed supervision

  • 2007

    Master Philosophy

    SOIL FERTILITY AS A FACTOR AFFECTING THE PRODUCTION OF YAMS (DISCOREA SPP.) IN VANUATU

    Principal Advisor

Enquiries

Contact Dr Jane O'Sullivan directly for media enquiries about:

  • Crop problem diagnosis
  • Crop science
  • Crops - tropical
  • Farming - Pacific Islands
  • Farming research
  • Pacific Island farming
  • Plant nutrition
  • Research - farming
  • Root crops - tropical
  • Tropical root crops

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