Biography

Christine Beveridge is the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture.  The Centre is a multidisciplinary research program which includes 175 members across five Universities and multiple external partner organisations.   Christine is also a Professor at The University of Queensland, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, an ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellow, a highly cited researcher and an affiliate at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation.

Christine was both the first female and first Australasian president of the International Plant Growth Substances Association.   Her research focus has been on the role of plant hormones in regulating and coordinating plant development, particularly shoot architecture. She discovered the plant hormone strigolactone and that sugar signalling is a driver of shoot branching.   More recently her focus has shifted to identifying how different genetic and physiological networks work together to control plant productivity.