Renvoize, Stephen A.
Job Title
Honorary Research Fellow
Department
Herbarium, Library Art & Archives
Section
Honorary Research Fellow
Science Teams:
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc, Univ. London, 1969
MPhil, Univ. Reading 1977.
Role
Global grass systematics, floristics and anatomy, special projects in South America, tropical Africa; Miscanthus; temperate Asian bamboos.
Floristic accounts for Flora of Tropical East Africa and Flora Zambesiaca, Aldabra, Brazil (Bahia & Paraná), Bolivia and Ecuador. Monographic study of Brachiaria for a forage grass project in collaboration with CIAT (Colombia). Monographic study of Miscanthus for a biomass project in collaboration with ADAS and funded by Defra. Anatomical studies of all grass genera for Genera Graminum project and Flora of Australia project.
Projects
Selected Recent Publications
- Hodkinson, T.R., Chase, M.W., Lledó, M.D., Salamin, N. & Renvoize, S.A. (2002). Phylogenetics of Miscanthus, Saccharum and related genera (Saccharinae, Andropogoneae, Poaceae) based on DNA sequences from ITS nuclear ribosomal DNA and plastid trnL intron and trnL-F intergenic spacers. Journal of Plant Research 115: 381-392.
- Renvoize, S.A. (2002). Grass anatomy. Flora of Australia 43(1): 71-132.
- Hodkinson, T.R., Chase, M.W. & Renvoize, S.A. (2002). Characterization of a genetic resource collection for Miscanthus (Saccharinae, Andropogoneae, Poaceae) using AFLP and ISSR PCR. Annals of Botany 89(5): 627-636.
- Hodkinson, T.R., Chase, M.W., Takahashi, C., Leitch, I.J., Bennett, M.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (2002). The use of DNA sequencing (ITS and trnL-F), AFLP, and fluorescent in situ hybridization to study allopolyploid Miscanthus (Poaceae). American Journal of Botany 89(2): 279-286.
Norrmann, G., Hanson, L., Renvoize, S.A. & Leitch, I.J. (2004). Genomic relationships among diploid and hexaploid species of Andropogon (Poaceae). Genome 47(6): 1220-1224.
Selected Earlier Publications
- Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1970-1982). Gramineae Vols 1-3. Flora of Tropical East Africa.
- Renvoize, S.A. (1984). Grasses of Bahia (Brazil). Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1986). Genera Graminum. HMSO.
- Renvoize, S.A. (1989). Flora Zambesiaca 10(3): 9-40.
- Renvoize, S.A. (1998). Gramineas de Bolivia. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 664 pp.
