Check out the newest publication from our lab!! 🌱🌽❄️

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

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 academic.oup.com/jxb/article-... @jxbotany.bsky.social

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 novel single‐cell NAD‐ME C4 subtype integrated with #CAM and #bicarbonate use in an aquatic plant 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Sheng Jiang et al. @WileyPlantSci #photosynthesis #Rubisco

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 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🎉🆕📰🎉: The winner takes it all: a single genotype of Kalanchoe × houghtonii is a global invader doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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.

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 doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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

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. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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)

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

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

Election day distraction: new preprint!

Leaf cooling during extreme heat 🌡️🍃 Leaf thermal thresholds breached 🥵 Tradeoffs between thermal and hydraulic safety 🤝 Read about all this and more in our new paper in PNAS! #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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.... 🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴

🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 New review paper out: We outline the uncertainties/ambiguities that are present when estimating mesophyll conductance (gm). We also explore whether genetically engineering higher gm will lead to greater crop yields. 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Many thanks to [email protected] for his excellent presentation today on Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) and succulence in the genus 'Clusia' - part of Cambridge's Plant Sciences seminar series. Photo: 'Clusia pratensis' plant in Panama taken by Ali during field research.

🌵 #CAMPlantsWeek Elevated nocturnal respiratory rates in the mitochondria of CAM plants: current knowledge and unanswered questions by Alistair Leverett and Anne Borland in @annbot #openaccess article botany.fyi/jSfqIr #PlantScience #Botany

🌵 #CAMPlantsWeek Low internal air space in plants with crassulacean acid metabolism may be an anatomical spandrel by Alistair Leverett and co-authors in @annbot.bsky.social #openaccess article 👉https://botany.fyi/mEJf4J #PlantScience #Botany

🌵 #CAMPlantsWeek eaf vein density correlates with crassulacean acid metabolism, but not hydraulic capacitance, in the genus Clusia by Alistair Leverett and co-authors in @annbot.bsky.social #openaccess article 👉 botany.fyi/NqxMjn #PlantScience #Botany

🌵 #CAMPlantsWeek Forty years of research into crassulacean acid metabolism in the genus Clusia: anatomy, ecophysiology and evolution by Manuel Luján and co-authors in @annbot.bsky.social #openaccess article 👉https://botany.fyi/lUzSGZ #PlantScience #Botany

🎉 Welcome to CAM Plants Week at @annbot.bsky.social !  🌵In the upcoming days, we’ll be sharing with you all the articles included in our recently released Special Issue titled‘CAM at the Crossroads’  Get ready for a week of groundbreaking articles! #CAMPlantsWeek