Emeritus Professor Kaye Basford

Emeritus Professor

School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
Faculty of Science

Overview

Professor of Biometry

Research Interests:

Research at the interface between applied statistics and quantitative genetics with extensive publications on the analysis and interpretation of multi-way data from large-scale plant breeding experiments, particularly those involving genotype by environment interaction. Theory and application of pattern analysis - clustering and ordination procedures - appropriate for data collected from plant breeding experiments and/or stored in germplasm databases. Analysis, interpretation and impact of genotype x environment interaction for primary economic plant attributes (yield and quality) and data management, integration and analysis (bioinformatics).

Other Activities:

Past President of the International Biometric Society (2010-11) and the Statistical Society of Australia Incorporated (2005-07). Life member of the Statistical Society of Australia Incorporated (2010). Australian Medal for Agricultural Science from the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (1998).

Previous Head of the School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences (2001-10).

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology and Institute of Statisticians (which has merged with the Royal Statistical Society).

Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Rice Research Institute (2013-15).

Qualifications

  • Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Australian Institute of Company Directors, Australian Institute of Company Directors
  • Australian Institute Of Agricultural Science and Technology, Australian Institute Of Agricultural Science and Technology
  • Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Masters (Coursework), The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Advanced), The University of Queensland

Publications

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Supervision

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Arief, Vivi N., DeLacy, Ian H. and Basford, Kaye E. (2020). Design and analysis of multi-year field trials for annual crops. Quantitative genetics, genomics and plant breeding. (pp. 178-193) Wallingford, United Kingdom: CABI. doi: 10.1079/9781789240214.0178

  • Basford, Kaye E. (2017). Federer, Walter Theodore. Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online. (pp. 1-6) Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781118445112.stat07927

  • Basford, Kaye E. (2014). Beyond the statistical fringe. Topics from Australian conferences on teaching statistics: OZCOTS 2008-2012. (pp. 59-70) edited by Helen MacGillivray, Michael A. Martin and Brian Phillips. New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0603-1_5

  • Basford, K. E., Morgenthaler, S. and Tukey, J. W. (2001). Multipolishing large two-way tables. Probability and Statistical Models with Applications. (pp. 485-502) edited by Ch. A. Charalambides, M. V. Koutras and N. Balakrishnan. New York, USA: Chapman & Hall/CRC.

  • Basford, K. E. (2001). Statistical interaction with quantitative geneticists to enhance impact from plant breeding programs. Statistics in Genetics and in the Environmental Sciences. (pp. 1-15) edited by L. T. Fernhold, S. Morgenthaler and W. Stahel. Berlin: Birkhauser Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8326-9_1

  • Kelly, A. M. and Basford, K. E. (2000). Pattern analysis in grassland and animal production systems. Field and Laboratory Methods for Grassland and Animal Production Research. (pp. 9-28) edited by L. 't Mannetje and R. M. Jones. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.

  • DeLacy, I. H., Basford, K. E., Cooper, M., Bull, J. K. and McLaren, C. G. (1996). Analysis of multi-environment trials - an historical perspective. Plant adaptation and crop improvement. (pp. 39-124) edited by M. Cooper and G. L. Hammer. Wallingford, United Kingdom: CAB International.

  • Cooper, M., DeLacy, I. H. and Basford, K. E. (1996). Relationships among analytical methods used to analyse genotypic adaptation in multi-environment trials. Plant adaptation and crop improvement. (pp. 193-224) edited by M. Cooper and G. L. Hammer. Wallingford, United Kingdom: CAB International.

  • DeLacy, I. H., Basford, K. E., Cooper, M. and Fox, P. N. (1996). Retrospective analysis of historical data sets from multi-environment trials - theoretical development. Plant adaptation and crop improvement. (pp. 243-267) edited by M. Cooper and G. L. Hammer. Wallingford, United Kingdom: CAB International.

  • Basford, K. E., Kroonenberg, P. M. and Cooper, M. (1996). Three-mode analytical methods for crop improvement programs. Plant adaptation and crop improvement. (pp. 291-305) edited by M. Cooper and G. L. Hammer. Wallingford, United Kingdom: CAB International.

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Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision