Dr Razia Shaik

Senior Lecturer

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  • Research Interest
  • Research
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  • Dr Razia Shail specialises in biomedical and agricultural sciences. She has won the prestigious teaching excellence award at Charles Sturt University, as well as many competitive national and international research grants.

    QUALIFICATIONS

    • Doctor of Philosophy
    • Master of Public Policy
    • Master of Science (Agriculture)
    • Bachelor of Science (Horticulture), ANGR Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India, 2000

  • Horticulture, Weed Pest Management

    • Shaik, R, et al. (2023). Chatgpt hallucinates when attributing answers. Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region.
    • Shaik, R, et al. (2023). Genomics of invasive weeds in Australia. PAG Australia: International Plant and Animal Genome Conference.
    • Shaik, R. S., Gurusinghe, S., Weston, L. A., & Downey, P. O. (2022). A historical perspective on plant invasions in Australia. In Global Plant Invasions. Clements, D. R., Upadhyaya, M. K., Joshi, S., & Shrestha, A. (eds). 129-149. AG, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
    • Shaik R. S., Burrows G. E., Urwin, N. A. R., Gopurenko, D., Lepschi, B. J. & Weston, L. A. (2017). The biology and management prickly paddy melon (Cucumis myriocarpus L.) an important summer annual weed in Australia. Crop Protection, (92) 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2016.10.005
    • Shaik, R. S., Burrows, G. E., Urwin, N. A. R., Gopurenko, D., Lepschi, B. J. & Weston, L. A. (2017) The biology, phenology and management of Australian weeds-camel melon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakai). Crop Protection, 98, 222-235.
    • Mwendwa, J. M., Weston, P., Fomsgaard, I., Laursen, B. B., Brown, W., Wu, H., Quinn, J., Weidenhamer, J., Shaik, R., & Weston, L. (2017). Metabolic profiling for benzoxazinoids in weed-suppressive and early vigour wheat genotypes. 8th World Congress of Allelopathy, Marseille, France.
    • Shaik, R. S., Zhu, X., Clements, D. R., & Weston, L. A. (2016). Understanding invasion history and predicting invasive niches using genetic sequencing technology: Case studies from Cucurbitaceae and Boraginaceae. Conservation Physiology, 4(1) 1-13.http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cow030
    • Shaik R. S., Lepschi, B. J., Gopurenko, D., Urwin, N. A. R., Burrows, G. E., & Weston, L. A. (2016). An integrative morphological and molecular approach to identification of three Australian invasive weeds: Citrullus colocynthis, Citrullus lanatus and Cucumis myriocarpus. Australian Systematic Botany, 29(5) 247-264.http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SB16027
    • Shaik R. S., Gopurenko, D., Urwin, N. A. R., Burrows, G. E., Lepschi, B. J., & Weston, L. A. (2015). Population genetics of invasive Citrullus lanatus, Citrullus colocynthis and Cucumis myriocarpus (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia: Inferences based on chloroplast and nuclear gene sequencing. Biological Invasions, 17: 2476-2490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-0891-6
    • Sharma, T., & Shaik, R. S. (2015). The effects of fertigation on soil, leaf nutrient content, tree growth, yield and quality of fruit crops: A review. Ecology, Environment and Conservation 21, 71-78.
    • Burrows G. E., & Shaik, R. S. (2014). Comparative developmental anatomy of the taproot of the cucurbitaceous vines Citrullus colocynthis (perennial), Citrullus lanatus (annual) and Cucumis myriocarpus (annual). Australian Journal of Botany, 62(7), 537-545. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/BT141245
    • Shaik, R. S., Weston, L. A., Burrows, G. E., & Gopurenko, D. (2011) A comparative phenological and genetic diversity analysis of two invasive weeds, camel melon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakai var. lanatus) and prickly paddy melon (Cucumis myriocarpus L.), in inland Australia. In: Steve Adkins (ed) 23rd Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society Conference, The Sebel Cairns, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 26-29 September 2011, 510-518.
    • Shaik, R. S., Gopurenko, D., Burrows, G. E., Urwin, N. A. R, Lepschi, B. J., Hildebrand, S. M., & Weston, L. A. (2012) Identification of the invasive weeds, camel melon, prickly paddy melon and colocynth in Australia: A morphological and molecular approach. In: Eldershaw, V. (ed). 18th Australasian Weeds Conference, The Sebel and Citigate Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8-11 October 2012. Developing solutions to evolving weed problems. Weed Science Society of Victoria Inc., Frankston, Australia, 73-77.
    • Razia, S., Pathania, N. K., Angiras, N. N., & & Sood, M. (2008). Integrated weed management in Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.). Himachal Journal of Agricultural Research,34(2): 35-39
    • Razia, S., Pathania, N. K., Angiras, N. N., & Sood, M. (2007). Economic studies of different weed management treatments in brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) under humid sub-temperate conditions. Himachal Journal of Agricultural Research, 32(2) 40-43.

  • APPROVED TO TEACH

    • AP201 Agriculture Production systems and Farm Management
    • AP501 Food, Fiber and Protein