Tel +64 3 479 9057
david.burritt@otago.ac.nz

Research Interests

  • Antioxidants in animals, plants
  • algae and plant derived products
  • Pollution and global climate change: impacts on animals, plants and algae
  • Plant and microbe interactions
  • Plant cell wall structure and function
  • Plant breeding and crop improvement, using biotechnology
  • Stress physiology of animals, plants and algae

Teaching Involvement

Selected Publications

Thimm JC, Burritt DJ, Ducker WA, Melton LD 2009. Pectins influence microfibril aggregation in celery cell walls: An atomic force microscopy study. Journal Of Structural Biology 168, 337–344.

Burritt DJ 2008. Glutathione metabolism in bryophytes under abiotic stress. In: Sulfur Assimilation and Abiotic Stress in Plants; Eds. Khan NA, Umar S, Singh S. Chapt. 14 pp. 303–316.

Burritt DJ 2008. Efficient cryopreservation of adventitious shoots of Begonia x erythrophylla using encapsulation-dehydration requires pretreatment with both ABA and proline. Plant Cell Tissue And Organ Culture 95, 209–215.

Burritt DJ 2008. The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon phenanthrene causes oxidative stress and alters polyamine metabolism in the aquatic liverwort Riccia fluitans L. Plant Cell And Environment 31, 1416–1431.

Richard LE, Peake, BM, Rusak SA, Cooper WJ, Burritt DJ 2007. Production and decomposition dynamics of hydrogen peroxide in freshwater. Environmental Chemistry 4, 49–54.

Hunter DC, Burritt DJ 2005. Light quality influences the polyamine content of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) cotyledon explants during shoot production in vitro. Plant Growth Regulation 45, 53–61.

Hunter DC, Burritt DJ 2004. Light quality influences adventitious shoot production from cotyledon explants of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.). In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant 40, 215–220.

Hunter DC, Burritt DJ 2003. Light Quality: A tool to manipulate plant growth and development in vitro. In: Recent Research Developments in Plant Biology, vol 3.

Poulter R, Harvey L, Burritt DJ 2003. Qualitative resistance to powdery mildew in hybrid sweet peas. Euphytica 133, 349–358.

Li ZL, Burritt DJ 2003. The influence of Cocksfoot Mottle Virus on antioxidant metabolism in the leaves of Dactylis glomerata L. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 62, 251–313.

Burritt DJ, Leung DWM 2003. Adventitious shoot regeneration from Begonia x erythrophylla petiole sections is developmentally sensitive to light quality. Physiologia Plantarum 118, 289–296.

Li ZL, Burritt DJ 2003. Changes in endogenous polyamines during the formation of somatic embryos from isogenic lines of Dactylis glomerata L. with different regenerative capacities. Plant Growth Regulation 40, 65–74.

Burritt DJ, Larkindale J, Hurd CL 2002. Antioxidant metabolism in the intertidal red seaweed Stictosiphonia arbuscula following desiccation. Planta 215, 829–838.

Clarke SF, Guy PL, Burritt DJ, Jameson PE 2002. Changes in the activities of antioxidant enzymes in response to virus infection and hormone treatment. Physiologia Plantarum 114, 157–164.

Hunter DC, Burritt DJ 2002. Improved adventitious shoot production from cotyledon explants of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.). Scientia Horticulturae 95, 269–276.

Thimm JC, Burritt DJ, Sims IM, Newman RH, Ducker WA, Melton LD 2002. Celery (Apium graveolens L.) parenchyma cell walls: Cell walls with minimal xyloglucan. Physiologia Plantarum 116, 164–171.

Campbell AW, Campbell PJ, Griffin WB, Burritt DJ, Conner AJ 2001. Prediction of sample size to maintain genetic variation in doubled plants following marker selection. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 103, 1028–1036.

Campbell AW, Griffin WB, Burritt DJ, Conner AJ 2001. The importance of light intensity for pollen tube growth and embryo survival in wheat x maize crosses. Annals of Botany 87, 517–522.

Darrow HE, Bannister P, Burritt DJ, Jameson PE 2001. The frost resistance of juvenile and adult forms of some heteroblastic New Zealand plants. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39, 355–363.

Smith JL, Burritt DJ, Bannister P 2001. Ultraviolet-B radiation leads to a reduction in free polyamines in Phaseolus vulgaris L. Plant Growth Regulation 35, 289–294.

Strong GL, Bannister P, Burritt DJ 2001. Temperate New Zealand mistletoes have lower capacities for electron transport than their hosts. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39, 171–174.

Campbell AW, Griffin WB, Burritt DJ, Conner AJ 2000. Production of wheat doubled haploids, via wide crosses, in New Zealand wheat. New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science 28, 185–194.

Clarke SF, Burritt DJ, Jameson PE, Guy PL 2000. Effects of plant hormones on white clover mosaic potexvirus double-stranded RNA. Plant Pathology 49, 428–434.

Clarke SF, Guy PL, Jameson PE, Schmierer D, Burritt DJ 2000. Influence of white clover mosaic potexvirus on endogenous levels of jasmonic acid and related compounds in Phaseolus vulgaris L. seedlings. Journal of Plant Physiology 156, 433–437.

Smith JL, Burritt DJ, Bannister P 2000. Shoot dry weight, chlorophyll and UV-B-absorbing compounds as indicators of plants' sensitivity to UV-B radiation. Annals of Botany 86, 1057–1063.

Strong GL, Bannister P, Burritt D 2000. Are mistletoes shade plants? CO2 assimilation and chlorophyll fluorescence of temperate mistletoes and their hosts. Annals of Botany 85, 511–519.

Thimm JC, Burritt DJ, Ducker WA, Melton LD 2000. Celery (Apium graveolens L.) parenchyma cell walls examined by atomic force microscopy: Effect of dehydration on cellulose microfibrils. Planta 212, 25–32.