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 […]
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!
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 […]
Congrats to a team of people involving UK (Lancaster), US (Illinois), and Nigerian (Amhadu Bello & IITA) based researchers who just published a study on field and glasshouse grown cowpea in Legume Science. This was a great team effort with fieldwork in Illinois by Anthony, glasshouse experiments in Lancaster led by undergrad dissertation student […]
A sunny Lancaster welcome to Ana Karla Lobo who has just begun working on the EU funded PhotoBoost project here in LEC. Ana Karla previously visited the team in Lancaster for a short N8 Agrifood project on wheat Ca1Pase which gave surprising results (click here for the Plant Physiology paper [open access]). She and Supreeta […]
A big Lancaster welcome to Joana Amaral who started today with the team as part of the EU funded CAPITALISE project. Joana will be working on improving photosynthesis and productivity in barley, maize, and tomato.
Congratulations to former Masters student, now PhD student Louis, whose work on homoeolog expression in hexaploid wheat has just been published in Photosynthesis Research! Louis did a great job shifting from a planned lab-based project to a primarily in silico project, and it was an impressive feat to adapt to this change, and get this […]
Congratulations to members of the team working on the RIPE project, who have today published in Nature Plants on how Rubisco deactivation limits cowpea productivity. This has been a big undertaking by the team, led by Sam and Elizabete. Well done! You can see the news article here and a direct link to the paper […]
This week we have a blog piece from Alice Robijns on her time with us at Lancaster working on RIPE & Rubisco. After a very productive year, she’s just recently joined Wanne Kromdijk and his group to do a PhD on C4 photosynthesis. In a year which was characterised by coming in and out […]
A warm Lancaster welcome to Supreeta Vijayakumar who joined the team this week as a Senior Research Associate in Metabolic Modeling. Supreeta has joined the team from Teeside University to work on the PhotoBoost project! She’ll be working on modelling to help improve photosynthesis and productivity in the vital C3 crops rice and potato.
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