Plant Science — OUR SCIENTISTS

Marcello Pennacchio, Ph.D.

Ethnobotanist, Conservation Scientist
Grant Project Coordinator

Ph.D., Curtin University of Technology, Australia, 1998

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Research Interests

My research interests include documenting indigenous uses for medicinal plants, screening important plants for novel pharmacologically-active compounds and identifying their mechanisms of action, studying the release of phytochemicals and their effects on plants and other organisms (allelopathy) and researching the effects of plant-derived smoke on the germination of seeds of a variety of plant species.

Selected publications

Pennacchio, M., Jefferson, L.V. and Havens, K. (2005). Arabidopsis thaliana: a new test species for phytotoxic bioassays. Journal of Chemical Ecology 31(8): 1877-1885.

Pennacchio, M. Kemp, A.S., Taylor, P.A., Wickens, K.M. and Kienow, L. (2005) Interesting biological activities from plants traditionally used by Native Australians. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 96: 597-601.

Pennacchio, M. (2005) Traditional Australian Aboriginal medicinal plants. HerbalGram, 65: 38-44.

Jefferson, L.V. and Pennacchio, M. (2005). The impact of shade on establishment of shrubs adapted to the high irradiation of semi-arid environments. Journal of Arid Environments. 63(4): 706-716.

Pennacchio, M., Bogyi,M. Teh, L. and Ghisalberti, E. (2004) Green-blood pigmentation in the shingleback lizard (Tiliqua rugosa). The Herpetological Journal 13: 161 – 165

Jefferson, L.V. and Pennacchio, M. (2003) Allelopathic Effects of Foliage Extracts from Four Chenopodiaceae Species on Seed Germination. Journal of Arid Environments 55(2): 275 – 285

Pennacchio, M. and Ghisalberti, E.L. (1999) Indigenous Botanical Knowledge in the Discovery of Pharmaceuticals. Journal of Australian Studies 64: 173–175; 283-284

Ghisalberti, E.L., Pennacchio, M. and Alexander, E. (1998) Survey of secondary plant metabolites with cardiovascular activity. Pharmaceutical Biology 36(4): 237 – 279

Syah, Y.M., Pennacchio, M. and Ghisalberti, E.L. (1998) Cardioactive phenylethanoid glycosides from Lantana camara. Fitoterapia: Edizione Scentifica 69(3): 285 – 286

Pennacchio, M., Syah, Y.M., Ghisalberti, E.L. and Alexander, E. (1997). Cardioactive iridoid glycosides from Eremophila species. Phytomedicine 4(4): 325 – 330

Plant Science — OUR SCIENTISTS

Marcello Pennacchio, Ph.D.

Ethnobotanist, Conservation Scientist Grant Project Coordinator

Ethnobotanist, Conservation Scientist
Grant Project Coordinator