11 March 2021
Dr Olwen M Grace
Honorary Research Associate
Department
Team
Specialism
Taxonomy, systematics, tree of life, desert plants, succulence, sustainable uses, people and plants
- BSc (Hons), University Natal, 1999
- MSc, University Natal, 2002
- PhD University of Pretoria, 2009
- Council Member, Society for Economic Botany
- Editorial boards of South African Journal of Botany and Frontiers in Plant Science
Fradera-Soler, M., Grace, O.M., Jørgensen, B. & Mravec, J. (2022)
Elastic and collapsible: current understanding of cell walls in succulent plants.
Journal of Experimental Botany
Lu, M., Fradera-Soler, M., Forest, F., Barraclough, T.G & Grace, O.M. (2021)
Evidence linking life form to a major shift in diversification rate in Crassula.
American Journal of Botany 109: 272-290.
Woudstra, Y., Viruel, J., Fritzsche, M., Bleazard, T., Mate, R., Howard, C., Rønsted, N. & Grace, O.M. (2021)
A customised target capture sequencing tool for molecular identification of Aloe vera and relatives.
Scientific Reports 11: 24347.
Grace, O.M., Pérez-Escobar, O.A., Lucas, E., Vorontsova, M., Lewis, G.P., Walker, B., Lohmann, L.J., Knapp, S., et al. (2021)
Botanical monography in the Anthropocene.
Trends in Plant Science 26: 433-441.
Malakasi, P., Bellot, S., Dee, R. & Grace, O.M. (2019)
Museomics clarifies the classification of Aloidendron (Asphodelaceae), the iconic African tree aloes.
Frontiers in Plant Science 10:1227.