Julian Hibberd

Julian Hibberd

Head of Department of Plant Sciences, Head of Molecular Physiology Group

Research group: Molecular physiology

Julian Hibberd

Biography

I'm interested in understanding photosynthesis and developing strategies that may allow it to be improved in the future. My group's major focus relates to how the efficient C4 pathway has evolved from the ancestral C3 state. In almost all C4 plants, leaves are modified such that changes to their development, cell biology and biochemistry allow photosynthesis to be partitioned between two cell-types. Despite this complexity, C4 photosynthesis has arisen in over 60 separate lineages of angiosperms, and compared with the C3 pathway, photosynthetic efficiency is increased by around 50%.

Publications

Publication

Chloroplast development in green plant tissues: the interplay between light, hormone, and transcriptional regulation

Date: 2 November 2021

Contributors: Lee Cackett, Leonie H. Luginbuehl, Tina B. Schreier, Enrique Lopez-Juez, Julian M. Hibberd.

Journal: New Phytologist

Publication

A bipartite transcription factor module controlling expression in the bundle sheath of Arabidopsis thaliana

Date: 23 November 2020

Contributors: Patrick J. Dickinson, Jana Kneřová, Marek Szecówka, Sean R. Stevenson, Steven J. Burgess, Hugh Mulvey, Anne-Maarit Bågman, Allison Gaudinier, Siobhan M. Brady & Julian M. Hibberd

Journal: Nature Plants

Publication

Local accumulation of reactive oxygen species in the rice bundle sheath during high light stress can be independent of photosynthesis and mediated by NADPH oxidase

Date: 30 October 2020

Contributors: Haiyan Xiong, Lei Hua, Ivan Reyna-Llorens, Yi Shi, Kun-Ming Chen, Nicholas Smirnoff, Johannes Kromdijk, and Julian M. Hibberd

Journal: PNAS

Publication

Fluorescent reporters for functional analysis in rice leaves

Date: 11 February 2020

Contributors: Leonie H. Luginbuehl, Sherif El-Sharnouby, Na Wang, and Julian M. Hibberd.

Journal: Plants direct

Publication

Combining computer vision and deep learning to enable ultra-scale aerial phenotyping and precision agriculture: a case study of lettuce

Date: 1 June 2019

Contributors: Bauer, A., Bostrom, A.G., Ball, J., Applegate, C., Cheng, T., Laycock, S., Rojas, S.M., Kirwan, J. and Zhou, J

Journal: Horticulture Research

Publication

Ancient duons may underpin spatial patterning of gene expression in C4 leaves

Date: 5 February 2018

Contributors: Ivan Reyna-Llorens, Steven J. Burgess, Gregory Reeves, Pallavi Singh, Sean R. Stevenson, Ben P. Williams, Susan Stanley, and Julian M. Hibberd

Journal: PNAS

Publication

Independent and Parallel Recruitment of Preexisting Mechanisms Underlying C4 Photosynthesis

Date: 18 March 2011

Contributors: Naomi J. Brown, Christine A. Newell, Susan Stanley, Jit E. Chen, Abigail J. Perrin, Kaisa Kajala, and Julian M. Hibberd

Journal: Science

Publication

Characteristics of C4 photosynthesis in stems and petioles of C3 flowering plants

Date: 24 January 2002

Contributors: Julian M. Hibberd & W. Paul Quick

Journal: Nature

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