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…

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

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

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

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/

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

A belated congratulations to Richard Vath 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), Erik Murchie and Steve Long. Onwards and upwards!!!! 🌾

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…

Kromdijk group represent!

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

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

📢 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/

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...)

Is C4 photosynthesis really not so efficient under low light? Comparative gas exchange of closely related C3 and C4 species under fluctuating light suggest the opposite. ⛅️🍃 Very excited to present Lucía Arce Cubas's latest! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

RIPE Director Steve Long has been announced as a speaker for TED2023: POSSIBILITY later this month!

Steve will present his work on hacking photosynthesis to feed the world and tackle climate change. bit.ly/40RCIQl

TED Talks #TED2023

While most of the Kromdijk Group studies the negative effects of excess light, some of us like to focus on the silver linings… check out Lee and Angie Burnett’s new pre-print! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Were recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cell Biology!
Cambridge University Department of Plant Sciences

Part of exciting ERC-funded project. Feel free to dm or email if interested.
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/39745/

#plantpathology

📢 New discovery alert 📢

Lucía Arce Cubas and her colleagues in Kromdijk Lab have found that C4 plants are slower than C3 plants to engage photosynthesis as light levels increase ! ☁️🌥️⛅️🌤️☀️🌞

Read more here 👇

plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/c4-plants…

If you or someone you know is looking for a #PhD project in #photosynthesis #plantsynbio and #biochemistry , there's plenty of time left to apply! BBSRCNorthWestBio applications close March 17th, and the Lancaster Environment Centre project closes end of March. Details: wp.me/p9L9PV-gy

Review by Julia Walter & Kromdijk Lab Department of Plant Sciences JIPB Wiley Plant Science Cambridge University

Here comes the #sun : How optimization of #photosynthetic #light reactions can boost #crop #yields

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ji…

#PlantSci #ClimateChange Lancaster Photosynthesis Group
Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil Rodolfo G Bante / Physiocrop