Dr Jaquie Mitchell's research activities are focused around two core themes. Jaquie has worked on various Research for Development projects based in South-East Asia with the aim of improving productivity and livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Currently she leads a weed management project for mechanised and broadcast lowland crop production systems in Laos and Cambodia. While a recently completed project focused on mechanization and value adding for diversification of lowland cropping systems. The second research theme includes examining genetic variation for resistance to abiotic stress, such as low-temperature tolerance at the reproductive stage in rice, the advantage of reduced-tillering gene in wheat grown under terminal drought, the effect of salinity and water-deficit on production of volatile compounds in aromatic rice.