Name:	Kadambot  H.M Siddique
Highest qualification and awarding university	PhD, The University of Western Australia
Designation	Hackett Professor of Agriculture Chair and Director
Employer	The University of Western Australia
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Key areas of interest	Crop physiology, water use and water use efficiency, production agronomy, farming systems, genetic resources, breeding research in cereal, grain and pasture legumes and oilseed crops. Adaptation of crops to dryland environments and the phenological, morphological, physiological, biochemical and genetic traits that enable crops to cope with various abiotic stresses.
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Professor Kadambot Siddique has more than 30 years’ experience in agricultural research, teaching and management in both Australia and overseas. He has developed a national and international reputation in agricultural science especially in the fields of crop physiology, production agronomy, farming systems, genetic resources, breeding research in cereal, grain and pasture legumes and oilseed crops. Has conducted research on adaptation of crops to dryland environments and the phenological, morphological, physiological, biochemical and genetic traits that enable crops to cope with various abiotic stresses. 

Has published more than 500 scientific papers and books/book chapters and trained over 50 Honours, MSc and PhD students.  Highly cited Researcher in 2019 and 2020 in agricultural science (Web of Science).

Research Project

1. Closing the loop, Black Soldier Fly technology to convert agricultural waste into high quality fertiliser and soil improvers (funded by DAWR)
2. Rapid breeding for reduced cooking time and enhanced nutritional quality in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) (funded by ACIAR)
3. Improving canola heat tolerance – a coordinated multidisciplinary approach (funded by GRDC)
4. Food security and governance of local knowledge in agriculture in India and Indonesia (funded by ARC DP)

Key Publications/Reports

1. Yufeng, Z., Saddique, Q., Ajaz, A., Jaitun, X., Khna, M.I., Mu, Q., Azmat, M., Cai, H. and Siddique, K.H.M. (2020). Deficit irrigation improves maize yield and water use efficiency in a semi-arid environment. Agricultural Water Management doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106483.
2. Hu, Y., Ma, P., Wu, S., Sun,B., Feng, H., Pan, X., Zhang, B., Chen, G., Duan, C., Lei, Q., Siddique, K.H.M., and Liu, B. (2020). Spatial-temporal distribution of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) roots and water use efficiency under ridge-furrow dual mulching. Agricultural Water Management 240. doi: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106301.
3. Chen, S., Jiang, T., Ma, H., He, C., Xu, F., Malone, R.W., Feng, H., Yu, Q., Siddique, K.H.M., Deng, Q. and He, J. (2020). Dynamic within-season irrigation scheduling for maize production in Northwest China: A method based on weather data fusion and yield prediction by DSSAT. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 285-286. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformt.2020.107928.
4. Chai, Q., Gan, Y., Zhao, C., Xu, H.L., Waskom, R.M., Niu, Y and Siddique, K.H.M. (2016). Regulated deficit irrigation for crop production under drought stress. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 36:3 doi:10.1007/s 13593-015-0338-6.
5. Farooq, M., Gogoi, N., Barthakur, S., Baroowa, B., Bharadwaj, N., Alghamdi, S.S. and Siddique, K.H.M. (2017). Drought stress in grain legumes during reproduction and grain filling. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 203: 81-102.