All Outputs (6)

A Deep Learning Method for Fully Automatic Stomatal Morphometry and Maximal Conductance Estimation (2021)
Journal Article

Stomata are integral to plant performance, enabling the exchange of gases between the atmosphere and the plant. The anatomy of stomata influences conductance properties with the maximal conductance rate, gsmax, calculated from density and size. Howev... Read More about A Deep Learning Method for Fully Automatic Stomatal Morphometry and Maximal Conductance Estimation.

Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops (2021)
Journal Article

A growing world population as well as the need to enhance sustainability and health create challenges for crop breeding. To address these challenges, not only quantitative but also qualitative improvements are needed, especially regarding the macro-... Read More about Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops.

Out of Africa: characterising the natural variation in dynamic photosynthetic traits in a diverse population of African rice (Oryza glaberrima) (2021)
Journal Article

African rice (Oryza glaberrima) has adapted to challenging environments and is a promising source of genetic variation. We analysed dynamics of photosynthesis and morphology in a reference set of 155 O. glaberrima accessions. Plants were grown in an... Read More about Out of Africa: characterising the natural variation in dynamic photosynthetic traits in a diverse population of African rice (Oryza glaberrima).

The rice EP3 and OsFBK1 E3 ligases alter plant architecture and flower development, and affect transcript accumulation of microRNA pathway genes and their targets (2021)
Journal Article

ERECTA PANICLE 3 (EP3) and ORYZA SATIVA F-BOX KELCH 1 (OsFBK1) proteins share 57% and 54% sequence identity with the Arabidopsis F-box protein HAWAIIAN SKIRT (HWS). Previously we showed that EP3 is a functional orthologue of HWS. Here we demonstrate... Read More about The rice EP3 and OsFBK1 E3 ligases alter plant architecture and flower development, and affect transcript accumulation of microRNA pathway genes and their targets.

The effect of canopy architecture on the patterning of “windflecks” within a wheat canopy (2021)
Journal Article

Under field conditions, plants are subject to wind-induced movement which creates fluctuations of light intensity and spectral quality reaching the leaves, defined here as windflecks. Within this study, irradiance within two contrasting wheat (Tritic... Read More about The effect of canopy architecture on the patterning of “windflecks” within a wheat canopy.

The role of photoprotection in defence of two wheat genotypes against Zymoseptoria tritici (2021)
Journal Article

This study provides new insights into the role of photoprotection in preformed and induced defence of two wheat genotypes with contrasting phenotypes to infection by Zymoseptoria tritici. We investigated the mechanisms of the photoprotective response... Read More about The role of photoprotection in defence of two wheat genotypes against Zymoseptoria tritici.