Angela Freeman
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Dr Angela Joan Freeman (born 1955) is an Australian agricultural scientist. She is a Senior Research Scientist in Microbiology at the Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI).
Early life and education[edit]
Freeman was born in Melbourne in 1955 and attended Fintona Girls School in Melbourne. She received her B Agr Sci from the University of Melbourne in 1976. She then received a PhD in 1986 for her work on photosynthesis of the intertidal seagrass Zostera muelleri in Westernport Bay as part of an environmental study of the bay and its future development.
Career[edit]
In 1983, Freeman joined the Victorian Department of Agriculture (now DEPI) as a plant virologist, working on overseas development projects in South-east Asia and the Pacific. The work focused on improved root crop production through the introduction of new species (potatoes), improved disease management in tropical root crops, production of virus-free planting material and the development of the first tissue culture collection of the indigenous root crops from the region.
In 1990 Freeman transferred to the Victorian Institute for Dryland Agriculture at Horsham, Victoria and took over the Management of the Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection and the Australian Post-entry Quarantine Program for Pulses and Oilseeds with a focus on importation of key germplasm to meet the needs of plant breeders, the continuous improvement of post-entry quarantine policies and practice and the safe transfer of crop germplasm.
Over the next 20 years Freeman developed a virology team with a focus on management of endemic viruses of grains and biosecurity preparedness for incursions of exotic viruses of grains, including the development of field surveillance methodologies and new diagnostic methods.
Current work[edit]
Freeman manages the national post-entry quarantine program for pulses and oilseeds. Her scientific expertise has led to major changes in regulation and testing of imported material. Freeman’s research team at Horsham, Victoria undertakes large scale annual virus surveys and provides the grains industry with disease management advice. Most recently this has been applied to the Beet Western Yellows virus in 2014.
Freeman works with the Australian national pulse breeding programs to ensure that new varieties being developed are free of virus, and is involved in an international virus resistance screening program for pulse germplasm.
Freeman is researching the impacts of climate change on key pests and diseases of grains, including the study of barley yellow dwarf virus and its aphid vector under elevated temperature and CO2.
Works[edit]
- Bao S, Wang X, Zhu Z, Zong X, Kumari S, Freeman A, van Leur J (2007). Survey of faba bean and field pea viruses in Yunnan Province, China. Australasian Plant Pathology 36 (4): 1–7.
- Chakraborty S, Luck j, Hollaway G, Freeman A, Norton R, Garrett K, Percy K, Hopkins A, Davis C, and Karnosky D (2008). Impacts of Global Change on Diseases of Agricultural Crops and Forest Trees. CABI Reviews: Perspectives in agriculture, veterinary science, nutrition and natural resources 2008:3 no. 054.
- Freeman, A. (2009). Broad bean stain virus national diagnostic protocol http://www.padil.gov.au/pbt/index.php?q=node/46&pbtID=154
- Freeman, A. (2009). Broad bean true mosaic virus national diagnostic protocol. http://www.padil.gov.au/pbt/index.php?q=node/46&pbtID=148
- Freeman, A. (2009). Broad bean mottle mosaic virus national diagnostic protocol. http://www.padil.gov.au/pbt/index.php?q=node/46&pbtID=152
- Freeman, A. (2009). Pea early browning virus national diagnostic protocol. http://www.padil.gov.au/pbt/index.php?q=node/46&pbtID=168
- Freeman A, Aftab M (2011) Effective management of viruses in pulse crops in south eastern Australia should include management of weeds. Australasian Plant Pathology published online (DOI 10.1007/s13313-011-0058-6). 12 pages.
- Freeman A, Aftab M (2011) Effective management of viruses in pulse crops in south eastern Australia should include management of weeds. Australasian Plant Pathology 40: 430-441.
- Freeman A & M. Spackman & K. Lindbeck (2012) A surveillance survey for lentil anthracnose in Victorian lentil crops using high throughput PCR testing. Australasian Plant Dis. Notes (2012) 7:177–180 DOI 10.1007/s13314-012-0078-2.
- Freeman AJ, Spackman ME, Aftab M , McQueen V, King S, van Leur JAG Loh MH, Rodoni B (2013) Comparison of tissue blot immunoassay and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assay for virus-testing pulse crops from a South-Eastern Australia survey. Australasian Plant Pathol. 42: 675-683 DOI 10.1007/s13313-013-0252-9
- Heath, R., Sward, R., Moran, J., Mason, A. and Hallam, N. 1987. Biological Characterisation of six isolates of potato virus Y and their serological detection by ELISA. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 38: 395-402.
- Kumari SG, Rodoni B, Vetten H-J, Loh MH, Freeman A, Van Leur J, Shiying B, Xiaoming W (2010). Detection and partial characterisation of Milk vetch dwarf virus isolates from faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in Yunnan Province, China. Journal of Phytopathology 158: 35-39.
- Luck J, Spackman M, Freeman A, Trebicki P, Griffiths W, Finlay K, Chakraborty S (2011) Climate change and diseases of food crops. Plant Pathology 60: 113-121.
- Mason, A. and Heath, R. 1984. A survey of potatoes in the Victorian Potato Breeding Program for the presence of potato spindle tuber viroid. Aust. Pl. Path. 13: 20-21.
- Narelle Nancarrow, Fiona E. Constable, Kyla J. Finlay, Angela J. Freeman, Brendan C. Rodoni, Piotr Trebicki, Simone Vassiliadis, Alan L. Yen, Jo E. Luck (2014) The effect of elevated temperature on barley yellow dwarf virus-PAV in wheat. Virus Research 186: 97-103 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2013.12.023)
- Salam, M, Davidson, J, Thomas, G, Ford, R, Jones, R, Lindbeck, K, Macleod, W, Kimber, R, Gallow, J, Mantri, N, van Leur, J, Coutts, B, Freeman, A, Richardson, H, Aftab, M, Moore, K, Knights, E, Nash, P and Verrell, A (2011) Advances in winter pulse pathology research in Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology, vol. 40, pp. 549-567.
- vanLeur JAG, Freeman A, Aftab M, Spackman M, Redden B and Materne M (2013a) Identification of seed-borne mosaic in lentil (Lens culinaris) germplasm and strategies to avoid its introduction in commercial Australian lentil fields. Australasian Plant Disease Notes 8: 75-77. (DOI 10.1007/s13314-013-0099-5).
- L. Zheng, J. Tang, G. Clover, M. Spackman, A. Freeman and B. C. Rodoni (2013) Universal primers for the detection of furoviruses, hordeiviruses and rymoviruses. Journal of Virological Methods.
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