Publications

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Feeding from the sun—Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security

Date: 26 November 2025

Contributors: Stephen P. Long, Yu Wang, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Amanda P. Cavanagh, Martin C. Jonikas, Johannes Kromdijk, Benedict M. Long, Amy Marshall-Colón, Diwakar Shukla, Robert H. Wilson, Xin-Guang Zhu, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth

Journal: Cell Press

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Extensive photophysiological variation in wild barley is linked to environmental origin

Date: 11 November 2025

Contributors: Matthieu Breil-Aubert, Katie Shaw, Jessica Royles, Cristina R. G. Sales, Julia Walter, Georgia Taylor, Richard L. Vath, Eyal Bdolach, Lalit D. Tiwari, Jyotirmaya Mathan, Tracy Lawson, Eyal Fridman, Johannes Kromdijk, John N. Ferguson

Journal: New Phytologist

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Sub-optimal temperature leads to tighter coupling between photosynthetic electron transport and CO2 assimilation under fluctuating light in maize

Date: 11 November 2025

Contributors: Cristina R G Sales, Stéphanie Arrivault, Tomás Tonetti, Vittoria Clapero, Richard L Vath, Lucía Arce Cubas, Mark Stitt, Johannes Kromdijk

Journal: Plant Physiology

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Rho GTPase overexpression impacts leaf internal architecture and mesophyll conductance in Arabidopsis

Date: 13 October 2025

Contributors: Isabella Østerlund, Silas Ørting, Alistair Leverett, Guillaume Théroux-Rancourt, Samira Ebrahimi, Yang Wang, Zoran Nikoloski, Johannes Kromdijk, Staffan Persson

Journal: New Phytologist Foundation

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Metabolite profiling reveals slow and uncoordinated adjustment of C4 photosynthesis to sudden changes in irradiance

Date: 13 October 2025

Contributors: Stéphanie Arrivault, David Barbosa Medeiros, Cristina Rodrigues Gabriel Sales, Manuela Guenther, Johannes Kromdijk, Alisdair R Fernie, Mark Stitt

Journal: Plant Physiology

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From growth potential to drought survival: a trait-and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species

Date: 6 October 2025

Contributors: Florence Volaire, Sean M Gleason, Andrea Carminati, Robert Griffin-Nolan, Maurizio Mencuccini, Karim Barkaoui, Sandra Bucci, Marc Carriquí, Aude Coupel-Ledru, Louise Comas, Alistair Leverett, Rose Marks, Jordi Martinez-Vilalta, Lucy Rowland, Jared J Stewart, Vincent Vadez

Journal: Authorea

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Illuminating stomatal responses to red light: establishing the role of Ci-dependent vs Ci-independent mechanisms

Date: 5 March 2024

Contributors: Taylor G, Walter J, Kromdijk J

Journal: Journal of Experimental Botany

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Lessons from relatives: C4 photosynthesis enhances CO2 assimilation during the low-light phase of fluctuations

Date: 3 October 2023

Contributors: Arce-Cubas L, Vath RL, Bernardo EL, Sales CRG, Burnett AC, Kromdijk J

Journal: Plant Physiology

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Improving C4 photosynthesis to increase productivity under optimal and suboptimal conditions

Date: 2 September 2021

Contributors: Sales CRG, Wang Y, Evers JB, Kromdijk J

Journal: Journal of Experimental Botany

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Improving photosynthesis and crop productivity by accelerating recovery from photoprotection

Date: 18 November 2016

Contributors: J Kromdijk, K Głowacka, L Leonelli, ST Gabilly, M Iwai, KK Niyogi

Journal: Science