Ali Leverett

Fig. 6 Hypothesized trade-offs across vascular species illustrating a water use economics framework.

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(🧵 1/7) From growth potential to drought survival: a trait- and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species
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Hypothesized trade-offs across vascular species illustrating a water use economics framework.

From growth potential to drought survival: a trait- and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species

Volaire et al.

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How I’m helping rice farmers in India harness the power of fungi in the soil By boosting beneficial microbes, researchers hope to increase crop resilience while reducing the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilisers.

From the Crop Science Centre in Cambridge to farmers' fields in India: check out the translational work of Cereal Symbiosis Lab member Emily Servanté, just published in THE CONVERSATION
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Check out the newest publication from our lab!! 🌱🌽❄️

High-resolution microCT reveals relationships between stomata and interior leaf anatomy in Sorghum Stomata are pores in the leaf epidermis that regulate the trade-off between CO2 uptake for photosynthesis and water vapor loss to the atmosphere. Stomatal patterning therefore influences water use eff...

Delighted to share new work on the 3D anatomy and stomatal patterning of a C4 grass www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Can anyone help:

I want to take photos of arabidopsis rosettes everyday as they grow to get growth curves for a lot of ecotypes. Does anyone know of software that can be used to read the label from inside the photo and rename the file with the plant ID and then amend the date to the file name too?

Pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase (PPDK) as a putative key regulator of diurnal deacidification in CAM leaves across varying light intensities and photoperiods Abstract. Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants primarily fix atmospheric CO2 at night and store it as malic acid in their vacuoles. During daytime, va

Pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase (PPDK) as a putative key regulator of diurnal deacidification in CAM leaves across varying light intensities and photoperiods academic.oup.com/jxb/article-... @jxbotany.bsky.social

High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph....

New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A model of the coexistence of C4, crassulacean acid metabolism, and bicarbonate use in a single cell of Ottelia alismoides.

A novel single‐cell NAD‐ME C4 subtype integrated with #CAM and #bicarbonate use in an aquatic plant

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by Sheng Jiang et al.

@WileyPlantSci #photosynthesis #Rubisco

Rho GTPase overexpression impacts leaf internal architecture and mesophyll conductance in Arabidopsis Leaves are built from multiple cell types and are structured to enable the conversion of carbon dioxide and water into sugars in the process of photosynthesis. Understanding how cell architecture im.....

New paper - led by Isabella Østerlund

Rho-GTPase overexpression can impact the development of cell shape and airspace structure in Arabidopsis.

These genetic changes can also reduce photosynthesis, due to lower mesophyll conductance

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One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint:
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🎉🆕📰🎉: The winner takes it all: a single genotype of Kalanchoe × houghtonii is a global invader
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Inside the Essex ‘drought room’ testing crops for climate change After one of the driest springs on record, and with British harvests collapsing, urgent research is finding creative ways to help farmers adapt

Since I’ve moved to England in 2020 we’ve lived through three of the hottest years on record. Unsurprisingly, this is impacting crop yields. Read more about the impact, and the work we do to mitigate this in this weekend’s times: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

New Article: "Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales" rdcu.be/epLNP

Evolution of leaf venation networks, from fewer, corrugated veins to high vein density and smoother loops. Herbivory as a potential driver of venation architectural changes.

A high‐quality genome of the Atacama Desert plant Cistanthe cachinalensis and its photosynthetic behavior related to drought and life history Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis has independently evolved many times in arid-adapted plant lineages. Cistanthe cachinalensis (Montiaceae), a desert annual, can upregulate CAM facul...

New #CAM paper dropped! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #plantscience

Regulation of Crassulacean acid metabolism at the protein level in Kalanchoë laxiflora (Katharina Schiller , Saskia Janshoff , Sanja Zenker , Prisca Viehöver , James Hartwell , Jürgen Eirich , Iris Finkemeier , Andrea Bräutigam) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency
lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/post-... @ripeproject.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint!
We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity.
Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊
#PlantScience

♻️🆓: Elevated nocturnal respiratory rates in the mitochondria of CAM plants: current knowledge and unanswered questions
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Welcome to the Pallavi Singh Lab account! We explore how plants respond to water stress, investigate shoot-root interactions via monocot grafting & work on enhancing photosynthesis. Follow us for research updates, fieldwork adventures & behind the scenes lab moments!
#PlantScience #Photosynthesis

Faster relaxation of nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) in C4 than in C3 species Acceleration of photoprotective non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) responses to changes in light intensity has been suggested as a strategy to enhance crop yield. Despite many key crops utilising C4 ph...

Have you ever wondered about NPQ in C4 plants? ☀️🪴 Check out the recent pre-print from Lucìa who used to be a PhD student/post-doc in our lab and now works for the @ripeproject.bsky.social in Illinois. She shows that C4 plants have faster NPQ than related C3 plants.
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Check out our postdoc Georgia's new paper on the role of hydrogen peroxide in coordinating photosynthesis with stomatal opening 🌱

In it she shows that chloroplast-derived hydrogen peroxide coordinates stomatal conductance and that this signal predominantly arises from the guard cells.

WE’RE HIRING!

Funded 3-year postdoc looking at the impact of chilling on maize 🌽

The project will be looking at chilling responses in roots and shoots 🌱❄️ including the role of ABA and photoinhibition.

Applications close 28th March. More details below www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50591/

I just signed (this one is for British citizens only)

Sorry I know that’s so vague and unhelpful - but feel free to email me too I’ll see if I can remember much from 2016

I used one during my PhD - there was a super useful A4 booklet that someone had made as a guide, but I can’t remember who it was by. It had a blue cover and cartoons of a scientist with a beard.

Tried finding it online but hard without remembering the author - someone on here might know

I need help finding a pdf of a paper that seems to be impossible for me to find - can anyone help?

“Physiological conditions in cucumber houses” (1917) F.G. Gregory

Please can I join

Shortcutting Photorespiration Protects Potato Photosynthesis and Tuber Yield Against Heatwave Stress Over two growing seasons, a chloroplast localized synthetic glycolate metabolic pathway expressed in potato, enhanced tuber biomass. We confirmed that this yield benefit did not come at the cost of t...

Over 3 pandemic summers @kmeacham-hensold.bsky.social led a fabulous team characterizing a photorespiratory bypass in field-grown potato, giving us more evidence that manipulating PR can enhance crop thermotolerance!

Out today : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS...

@globalchangebio.bsky.social