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About us: Dr. Suzie Reichman

Dr Suzie Reichman
Email: reichman@unimelb.edu.au
Name:Dr Suzie Reichman
Position: Research Fellow



Postal: School of Botany
University of Melbourne
VIC 3010 Australia

 


• Plant-soil relationships with particular expertise in metal ecotoxicology, rhizosphere chemistry, vegetation and ecosystem health, and the nutrition of Australian plants.

• Experience includes mine-site restoration, metal bioavailability and toxicity, Fe nutrition and phytosiderophores in grasses, metal toxicity in Australian trees, remediation of contaminated growth substrates, food-chain transfer hazards, mycorrhizae, seed biology, experimental design and statistical analysis.

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2004 – present Centenary Research Fellow, School of Botany, University of Melbourne
2001 – 2004 Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA
1996 – 2001 PhD., The University of Queensland (UQ)
2001 Research Assistant, School of Land and Food Sciences, UQ
1998 – 2001 Tutor, School of Land and Food Sciences, UQ
1995 – 1996 Research Assistant, Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, UQ

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Journal articles
Reichman, S.M., N.W. Menzies, C.J. Asher, and D.R. Mulligan. 2004. Seedling responses of four Australian tree species to toxic concentrations of manganese in solution culture. Plant and Soil. 258: 341-350
Reichman, S.M. and D.R. Parker. 2002. Revisiting the metal-binding chemistry of nicotianamine and 2’-deoxymugineic acid. Implications for iron nutrition in strategy II plants. Plant Physiology 129: 1435-1438
Reichman, S.M., C.J. Asher, D.R. Mulligan, and N.W. Menzies. 2001. Seedling responses of three Australian tree species to toxic concentrations of zinc in solution culture. Plant and Soil. 235:151-158.
Reichman, S.M. 1996. Notes on the methods used for measuring the effect of red: far red ratios on seed germination. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of Australia. 26, 125-127.

Book chapters
Reichman, S.M. and D.R. Parker. 2004. Metal complexation by phytosiderophores in the rhizosphere. IN: Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements in the Rhizosphere (ed. P.M. Huang) Elsevier, Toronto (in press).
Parker, D.R., S.M. Reichman and D.E. Crowley. 2004. Metal chelation in the rhizosphere. IN: Root and Soil Management: Interactions Between Roots and the Soil (eds. Wright et al) American Society of Agronomy Monograph No. ??. (in press).
Rimmer, D.L., S.M. Reichman, and N.W. Menzies. 2001. Bioavailability of Cu, Zn and Mn in contaminated soils and speciation in soil solution. IN: Bioavailability of Trace Elements in Soils (eds. I.K. Iskandar and M.B. Kirkham). pp 77-87. CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Occasional Paper
Reichman, S.M. 2001. The Responses of Plants to Metal Toxicity. A Review Focusing on Copper, Manganese and Zinc. AMEEF Paper 14. 59 pp. Australian Minerals and Energy Environment Foundation, Melbourne.


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