Staff Profile
Senior Lecturer in Plant Biology
Rainer Hofmann
DipSci (Massey), PhD (Massey)
Contact Details
Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences
| Location | Hilgendorf 310 |
| Phone | 64 3 325 2811 |
| Extension | 8202 |
| Rainer Hofmann |
Currently Teaching
PLSC 201 Plant Science II
PLSC 325 Plant Physiology
BICH 634 Plant Cell Physiology.
Academic and Professional Background
Member of:
- Environmental Sustainability Advisory Group at Lincoln University
- NZ Society of Plant Physiologists
- NZ Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- NZ Grassland Association.
Current Research and Publications
- Plant biology and environmental plant physiology
- Plant responses to environmental stress, e.g. drought, UV-B radiation; stress interaction
- Plant metabolomics and role of flavonoids in stress protection
- Photosynthesis and plant water relations
- Application of plant physiology and biochemistry in agriculture, viticulture, Rongoa Māori medicinal plants, ecology.
Selected Publications
Hofmann RW, Jordan BR (2006). Responses of pasture plants to UV-B radiation and interaction with drought. UV radiation and its effects - an update 2006. 38-39.
Hofmann RW, Campbell BD, Bloor SJ, Swinny EE, Markham KR, Ryan KG, Fountain DW (2003). Responses to UV-B radiation in Trifolium repens L. – physiological links to plant productivity and water availability. Plant, Cell and Environment 26 (4): 603-612.
Hofmann RW, Campbell BD, Fountain DW (2003). Sensitivity of white clover to UV-B radiation depends on water availability, plant productivity and duration of stress. Global Change Biology 9 (3): 473–477.
Hofmann RW, Campbell BD, Fountain DW, Jordan BR, Greer DH, Hunt DY, Hunt CL (2001). Multivariate analysis of intraspecific responses to ultraviolet-B radiation in white clover (Trifolium repens L.). Plant, Cell and Environment 24 (9): 917-927.
Hofmann RW, Swinny EE, Bloor SJ, Markham KR, Ryan KG, Campbell BD, Jordan BR, Fountain DW (2000). Responses of nine Trifolium repens L. populations to ultraviolet-B radiation: differential flavonol glycoside accumulation and biomass production. Annals of Botany 86 (3): 527-537 (cover story).
Lindroth RL, Hofmann RW, Campbell BD, McNabb WC, Hunt DY (2000). Population differences in Trifolium repens L. response to ultraviolet-B radiation: foliar chemistry and consequences for two lepidopteran herbivores. Oecologia 122: 20-28.
Campbell BD, Hofmann RW, Hunt CL (1999). UV-B effects on New Zealand pasture ecosystems. In: Rozema J, ed. Stratospheric ozone depletion. The effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on terrestrial ecosystems. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers, 227-249.
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