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Really exciting to finally have this out! Especially interesting how CO2 assimilation in C4 species when going from higher to lower light was stronger AND more sustained than in C3 species (also quite proud of my graphs for this one too...)

📢 New vacancy alert! 📢 Join the Department of Plant Sciences as University Assistant Professor/Associate Professor in Plant Ecology. Closing date - 31 May. More here 👇 jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/40576/

Ever wondered how shade affects sugarcane plants? @crisrgsales’ new paper discusses its negative impact on photosynthetic efficiency, and an interesting C4 metabolic bottleneck! Check it out here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Is chloroplast size optimal for photosynthetic efficiency? Głowacka et al. Steven Driever Centre for Crop Systems Analysis - WUR Kromdijk Lab The RIPE Project Kasia Glowacka Aerobiologist.Seema47 UNL PSI 📖ow.ly/nVoG50P1FZz

Kromdijk group represent!

New paper by Emmanuel 🚨 🌱 C4 species are thought to have less stomata 🌿 We tested if C4 stomata also have different responses to blue and red light 🔵 We found C4 dicots have strongly diminished stomatal sensitivity to blue light & more! journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

A belated congratulations to @thevathicus and Lucía Arce Cubas, who successfully defended their PhDs last month!!!🍾 Many thanks to their examiners Julian Hibberd (2/2 for our PhDs so far), @ErikMurchie and Steve Long. Onwards and upwards!!!! 🌾

Check out our video on John Ferguson’s work! How do we relate genetic variation to photosynthesis in maize? 🧬 Get a hugely genetically diverse maize population 🌽 Measure traits 🤔 Connect! Edited by our own Lucía Arce Cubas and featuring some of our fabulous summer students

JOB ALERT 🔔 We are seeking a postdoc to: - develop AI strategies to improve photosynthetic modelling 🤖 - characterise uncertainty ❓ - identify improvement strategies through metabolic modelling 📈📉 Please pass on to anyone who might be interested! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44742/

what I’ll talk about (tldr): ☀️ photosynthetic efficiency suffers during changes in light (which happens lots on the field!) 🌱 most of what we know about this limitation comes from C3 species… so what about C4??? 🌽 C4 plants include powerhouses like maize and sorghum

Huge congratulations to Emmanuel Bernardo, who just passed his PhD viva! Emmanuel was the first PhD student in the lab and we’re all super proud of him 🎉 thanks to examiners Tracy Lawson and Julian Hibberd

Scrub-a-dub-dub, earn that pizza grub! #labspringclean

Read Georgia Taylor’s latest, on deconvoluting stomatal responses to red light! 🚦 ⚖️ Ci-dependent and independent pathways are distinct, and contribute equally 💨 …except at high Ci, where the independent response is suppressed (they interact!) academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

📚TWO FULLY FUNDED PHDs with us + Julian Hibberd! FOCUS: the untapped potential of C4 orphan crop G. gynandra - use genetic and molecular tools to identify avenues for improving it, or for engineering of C4 photosynthesis! For UK nationals & Jan ‘25 start, apply before 15 July.

🚨 NEW REVIEW: Can we engineer mesophyll conductance to improve photosynthesis? 💨🍃 Find out in Alistair Leverett’s latest! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New paper out - led by Milad Rahimi-Majd This study uses non-linear models to explore the relationships between anatomy and leaf mesophyll conductance onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴

Congratulations are in order for Georgia Taylor who passed her viva yesterday with minor corrections! (while being interrupted by a fire alarm too!) Many thanks to Tracy Lawson and Julian Hibberd for being fantastic examiners! 🌿🌱🥳

We’ve decided to officially move to Bluesky at @plantphys-cam.bsky.social Come join us there to talk about all things photosynthetic light reactions! 🌱☀️