New paper by Sophie on C4 trees

Well done to Sophie Young, Lundgren Lab PhD student, who has just published a new study in the Journal of Experimental Botany on ecological niches of C4 trees. Check out the article from Sophie, Marj and colleagues comparing C3 and C4 trees, to better understand some of  the questions around how and why C4 is so rare in trees.  

New paper on improving wheat yields

A new paper by a team of wheat researchers including Elizabete is now online at Nature Food, discussing integration of different physiological traits to improve wheat yields. You can also see an article from CIMMYT here. Well done to Elizabete and colleagues!

PhD opportunities advertised on phosphatases and cowpea

There are currently 2 projects advertised to join us for a PhD to work on photosynthesis! One project is on cowpea and studying how to improve its productivity and resilience to heat stress. This is supervised by Elizabete and one of our African cowpea collaborators Sanatu Mustapha Alidu at Tamale in Northern Ghana. It includes work on physiology, phenotyping,  biochemistry, […]