Staff Profile

Senior Lecturer in Plant Biology

Rainer Hofmann

DipSci (Massey), PhD (Massey)

Rainer Hofmann

Contact Details

Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Location FSC 107
Phone 64 3 325 2811
Extension 8202
Email Rainer.Hofmann@lincoln.ac.nz
 

Currently Teaching

Course examiner for:

Also teaching:

 

Academic and Professional Background

Vice President of the NZ Society of Plant Biologists

Member of the Lincoln University:

  • Academic Board
  • Academic Administration Committee
  • Science Faculty Teaching Committee

BSc Coordinator (Biological Sciences)

Vice President of the Lincoln University Staff Club

 

Current Research and Publications / Selected Publications

  • Environmental Plant Biology
  • Plant responses to environmental stress, e.g. UV-B radiation, drought, water-logging, temperature stress; stress interactionsPlant metabolomics and role of flavonoids in stress protection, antioxidants
  • Photosynthesis and plant water relations
  • Plant breeding and marker-assisted selection
  • Application of plant physiology and biochemistry in agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, ecology, Rongoa Māori medicinal plants.


Hofmann RW, Campbell BD (2012). Leaf-level responses to ultraviolet-B radiation in Trifolium repens populations under defoliation pressure. Environmental and Experimental Botany 78: 64– 69

Ballizany WL, Hofmann RW, Jahufer MZZ, Barrett BA (2012). Genotype × environment analysis of flavonoid accumulation and morphology in white clover under contrasting field conditions. Field Crops Research 128: 156–166.

Ballizany WL, Hofmann RW, Jahufer MZZ, Barrett BA (2012). Multivariate associations of flavonoid and biomass accumulation in white clover (Trifolium repens) under drought. Functional Plant Biology 39(2): 167-177.

Hofmann RW, Jahufer MZZ (2011). Tradeoff between biomass and flavonoid accumulation in white clover reflects contrasting plant strategies. PLoS ONE 6(4): e18949.

Hofmann RW, Campbell BD (2011). Response of Trifolium repens to UV-B radiation: morphological links to plant productivity and water availability. Plant Biology 13(6): 896-90.

 

Supervision

Supervision of several PhD and Masters students

 

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