Dr Dilani Jambuthenne – Leaders Institute

Dr Dilani Jambuthenne

Senior Lecturer

Dr Dilani Jambuthenne is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Crop Science Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation.

QUALIFICATION
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Master of Science (Agriculture)
- Bachelor of Science (Agriculture)
Quantitative Genetics, Plant Breeding, and Plant Pathology
- Jambuthenne, D. T., Liu, D., Garrard, T., Dadu, H., Maclean, M., Snyman, L., Wallwork, H., Hickey, L., Hayes, B., Voss-Fells, K. P., & Dinglasan, E. (2025). Haplotype-based QTL mapping for quantitative disease resistances in barley. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. (Under review).
- Tong, J., Zhao, C., Liu, D., Jambuthenne, D. T., Sun, M., Dinglasan, E., Periyannan, S. K., Hickey, L. T., & Hayes, B. J. (2024). Genome-wide atlas of rust resistance loci in wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 137 (8), 179.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-024-04689-8
- Xue, Y., Hiti-Bandaralage, J. C. A., Jambuthenne, D. T., Zhao, Z., & Mitter, N. (2023). Micropropagation of Duboisia species via shoot tip meristem. Horticulturae, 9(12), 1313.https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9121313
- Alahmad, S., Kang, Y., Dinglasan, E., Jambuthenne, D., Robinson, H., Tao, Y., Able, J. A., Christopher, J., Voss-Fels, K. P., Bassi, F. M., & Hickey, L. T. (2022). A multi-reference parent nested-association mapping population to dissect the genetics of quantitative traits in durum wheat. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 70(5), 1471–1485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-022-01515-2
- Jambuthenne, D. T., Riaz, A., Athiyannan, N., Alahmad, S., Ng, W. L., Ziems, L., Afanasenko, O., Periyannan, S. K., Aitken, E., Platz, G., Godwin, I., Voss-Fels, K. P., Dinglasan, E., & Hickey, L. T. (2022). Mining the Vavilov wheat diversity panel for new sources of adult plant resistance to stripe rust. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 135(4), 1355–1373.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-022-04037-8
- Senevirathna, J. G. D. T., & Aoki, T. (2008). Morphological and molecular identification of Fusarium verticillioides in maize. Annals of the Sri Lanka Department of Agriculture, 10, 191–198.
- Senevirathna, J. G. D. T., Mettananda, K. A., & Bogahawatta, S. (2008). A study on the present status of seed paddy production in Sri Lanka. Annals of the Sri Lanka Department of Agriculture, 10, 177–189.