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Anisohydric sugar beet rapidly responds to light to optimize leaf water use efficiency utilizing numerous small stomata (2020)
Journal Article
Barratt, G. E., Sparkes, D. L., McAusland, L., & Murchie, E. H. (2021). Anisohydric sugar beet rapidly responds to light to optimize leaf water use efficiency utilizing numerous small stomata. AoB PLANTS, 13(1), Article plaa067. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plaa067

© 2020 The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company. Under conditions of high transpiration and low soil water availability, the demand for water can exceed supply causing a reduction in water pot... Read More about Anisohydric sugar beet rapidly responds to light to optimize leaf water use efficiency utilizing numerous small stomata.

Photoprotective energy dissipation is greater in the lower, not the upper, regions of a rice canopy: A 3D analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Foo, C., Burgess, A., Retkute, R., Tree-Intong, P., Ruban, A., & Murchie, E. (2020). Photoprotective energy dissipation is greater in the lower, not the upper, regions of a rice canopy: A 3D analysis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(22), 7382-7392. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa411

© 2020 The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. High light intensities raise photosynthetic and plant growth rates but can cause damage to the photosynthetic machinery. The likelihood... Read More about Photoprotective energy dissipation is greater in the lower, not the upper, regions of a rice canopy: A 3D analysis.

Quantifying the influence of water deficit on root and shoot growth in wheat using X-ray Computed Tomography (2020)
Journal Article
Khalil, A. M., Murchie, E. H., & Mooney, S. J. (2020). Quantifying the influence of water deficit on root and shoot growth in wheat using X-ray Computed Tomography. AoB PLANTS, 12(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plaa036

© 2020 The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company. The potential increased frequency and severity of drought associated with environmental change represents a significant obstacle to efforts aim... Read More about Quantifying the influence of water deficit on root and shoot growth in wheat using X-ray Computed Tomography.

Variation in key leaf photosynthetic traits across wheat wild relatives is accession dependent not species dependent (2020)
Journal Article
McAusland, L., Vialet‐Chabrand, S., Jauregui, I., Burridge, A., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Fryer, M. J., …Murchie, E. H. (2020). Variation in key leaf photosynthetic traits across wheat wild relatives is accession dependent not species dependent. New Phytologist, 228(6), 1767-1780. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16832

©2020 The Authors. New Phytologist ©2020 New Phytologist Trust The wild relatives of modern wheat represent an underutilized source of genetic and phenotypic diversity and are of interest in breeding owing to their wide adaptation to diverse environm... Read More about Variation in key leaf photosynthetic traits across wheat wild relatives is accession dependent not species dependent.

Growth Spectrum Complexity Dictates Aromatic Intensity in Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) (2020)
Journal Article
Smith-Herman, H. L., McAusland, L., Lim, M., Morris, D. E., Smith, H. L., Mohammed, U., …Murchie, E. H. (2020). Growth Spectrum Complexity Dictates Aromatic Intensity in Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.). Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, Article 462. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00462

© Copyright © 2020 McAusland, Lim, Morris, Smith-Herman, Mohammed, Hayes-Gill, Crowe, Fisk and Murchie. Advancements in availability and specificity of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have facilitated trait modification of high-value edible herbs and ve... Read More about Growth Spectrum Complexity Dictates Aromatic Intensity in Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.).

Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and protein concentration in Indian wheat cultivars (2020)
Journal Article
Nehe, A. S., Misra, S., Murchie, E. H., Chinnathambi, K., Singh Tyagi, B., & Foulkes, M. J. (2020). Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and protein concentration in Indian wheat cultivars. Field Crops Research, 251, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107778

© 2020 The Authors Nitrogen (N) fertilizer represents a significant cost for the grower and may also have environmental impacts through nitrate leaching and N2O (a greenhouse gas) emissions associated with denitrification. The objectives of this stud... Read More about Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and protein concentration in Indian wheat cultivars.

Author Correction: Rice plants overexpressing OsEPF1 show reduced stomatal density and increased root cortical aerenchyma formation (Scientific Reports, (2019), 9, 1, (5584), 10.1038/s41598-019-41922-7) (2019)
Journal Article
Mohammed, U., Caine, R. S., Atkinson, J. A., Harrison, E. L., Wells, D., Chater, C. C., …Murchie, E. H. (2019). Author Correction: Rice plants overexpressing OsEPF1 show reduced stomatal density and increased root cortical aerenchyma formation (Scientific Reports, (2019), 9, 1, (5584), 10.1038/s41598-019-41922-7). Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 14827. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51402-7

© 2019, The Author(s). The Acknowledgements section in this Article is incomplete. “This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [grant numbers BB/ R004633/1, BB/N021061/1, BB/N013646/1]. JAA and DMW receive f... Read More about Author Correction: Rice plants overexpressing OsEPF1 show reduced stomatal density and increased root cortical aerenchyma formation (Scientific Reports, (2019), 9, 1, (5584), 10.1038/s41598-019-41922-7).

High throughput procedure utilising chlorophyll fluorescence imaging to phenotype dynamic photosynthesis and photoprotection in leaves under controlled gaseous conditions (2019)
Journal Article
McAusland, L., Murchie, E., & Atkinson, J. (2019). High throughput procedure utilising chlorophyll fluorescence imaging to phenotype dynamic photosynthesis and photoprotection in leaves under controlled gaseous conditions. Plant Methods, 15, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-019-0485-x

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: As yields of major crops such as wheat (T. aestivum) have begun to plateau in recent years, there is growing pressure to efficiently phenotype large populations for traits associated with genetic advancement in yield... Read More about High throughput procedure utilising chlorophyll fluorescence imaging to phenotype dynamic photosynthesis and photoprotection in leaves under controlled gaseous conditions.

Recovering Wind-induced Plant motion in Dense Field Environments via Deep Learning and Multiple Object Tracking (2019)
Journal Article
Gibbs, J. A., Burgess, A. J., Pound, M. P., Pridmore, T. P., & Murchie, E. H. (2019). Recovering Wind-induced Plant motion in Dense Field Environments via Deep Learning and Multiple Object Tracking. Plant Physiology, 181, 28-42. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.19.00141

Understanding the relationships between local environmental conditions and plant structure and function is critical for both fundamental science and for improving the performance of crops in field settings. Wind-induced plant motion is important in m... Read More about Recovering Wind-induced Plant motion in Dense Field Environments via Deep Learning and Multiple Object Tracking.

Active Vision and Surface Reconstruction for 3D Plant Shoot Modelling (2019)
Journal Article
Gibbs, J., French, A., Murchie, E., Wells, D., Pound, M., & Pridmore, T. (2020). Active Vision and Surface Reconstruction for 3D Plant Shoot Modelling. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 17(6), 1907-1917. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCBB.2019.2896908

Plant phenotyping is the quantitative description of a plant’s physiological, biochemical and anatomical status which can be used in trait selection and helps to provide mechanisms to link underlying genetics with yield. Here, an active vision- based... Read More about Active Vision and Surface Reconstruction for 3D Plant Shoot Modelling.

Rice plants overexpressing OsEPF1 show reduced stomatal density and increased root cortical aerenchyma formation (2019)
Journal Article
Mohammed, U., Caine, R. S., Atkinson, J. A., Harrison, E. L., Wells, D., Chater, C. C., …Murchie, E. H. (2019). Rice plants overexpressing OsEPF1 show reduced stomatal density and increased root cortical aerenchyma formation. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 5584. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41922-7

Stomata are adjustable pores in the aerial epidermis of plants. The role of stomata is usually described in terms of the trade-off between CO2 uptake and water loss. Little consideration has been given to their interaction with below-ground developme... Read More about Rice plants overexpressing OsEPF1 show reduced stomatal density and increased root cortical aerenchyma formation.

A canopy conundrum: can wind-induced movement help to increase crop productivity by relieving photosynthetic limitations? (2019)
Journal Article
Burgess, A. J., Gibbs, J. A., & Murchie, E. H. (2019). A canopy conundrum: can wind-induced movement help to increase crop productivity by relieving photosynthetic limitations?. Journal of Experimental Botany, 70(9), 2371-2380. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery424

Wind-induced movement is a ubiquitous occurrence for all plants grown in natural or agricultural settings and in the context of high, damaging wind speeds it has been well studied. However, the impact of lower wind speeds (that do not cause any damag... Read More about A canopy conundrum: can wind-induced movement help to increase crop productivity by relieving photosynthetic limitations?.

Plant phenotyping: an active vision cell for three-dimensional plant shoot reconstruction (2018)
Journal Article
Gibbs, J., Pound, M., French, A. P., Wells, D. M., Murchie, E., & Pridmore, T. (2018). Plant phenotyping: an active vision cell for three-dimensional plant shoot reconstruction. Plant Physiology, 178(2), 524-534. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.00664

© 2018 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved. Three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated models of plants are urgently needed to support both phenotyping and simulation-based studies such as photosynthesis modeling. However, the co... Read More about Plant phenotyping: an active vision cell for three-dimensional plant shoot reconstruction.

Rice with reduced stomatal density conserves water and has improved drought tolerance under future climate conditions (2018)
Journal Article
Caine, R. S., Yin, X., Sloan, J., Harrison, E. L., Mohammed, U., Fulton, T., …Gray, J. E. (2019). Rice with reduced stomatal density conserves water and has improved drought tolerance under future climate conditions. New Phytologist, 221(1), 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15344

Much of humanity relies on rice (Oryza sativa) as a food source, but cultivation is water intensive and the crop is vulnerable to drought and high temperatures. Under climate change, periods of reduced water availability and high temperature are expe... Read More about Rice with reduced stomatal density conserves water and has improved drought tolerance under future climate conditions.

Chlorophyll fluorescence on the fast timescale (2018)
Book Chapter
Ajigboye, O. O., Ray, R. V., & Murchie, E. H. (2018). Chlorophyll fluorescence on the fast timescale. In S. Covshoff (Ed.), Photosynthesis: Methods and Protocols, 95-104. Springer Publishing Company. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-7786-4_6

Chlorophyll fluorescence is a rapid and non-invasive tool used for probing the activity of photosynthesis that can be used in vivo and in the field. It is highly relevant to the demands of high-throughput crop phenotyping and can be automated or manu... Read More about Chlorophyll fluorescence on the fast timescale.

Genetic variation in N-use efficiency and associated traits in Indian wheat cultivars (2018)
Journal Article
Nehe⁠, A., Misra, S., Murchie, E., Chinnathambi, K., & Foulkes⁠, J. (2018). Genetic variation in N-use efficiency and associated traits in Indian wheat cultivars. Field Crops Research, 225, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2018.06.002

Nitrogen (N) fertilizer represents a significant cost for the grower and may also have environmental impacts through nitrate leaching and N⁠2O (a greenhouse gas) emissions associated with denitrification. The objectives of this study were to quantify... Read More about Genetic variation in N-use efficiency and associated traits in Indian wheat cultivars.

Measuring the dynamic photosynthome (2018)
Journal Article
Murchie, E. H., Kefauver, S., Araus, J. L., Muller, O., Rascher, U., Flood, P. J., & Lawson, T. (in press). Measuring the dynamic photosynthome. Annals of Botany, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcy087

Background: Photosynthesis underpins plant productivity and yet is notoriously sensitive to small changes inenvironmental conditions, meaning that quantitation in nature across different time scales is not straightforward. The ‘dynamic’ changes in ph... Read More about Measuring the dynamic photosynthome.

Three-dimensional plant architecture and sunlit-shaded patterns: a stochastic model of light dynamics in canopies (2018)
Journal Article
Retkute, R., Townsend, A. J., Murchie, E. H., Jensen, O. E., & Preston, S. P. (2018). Three-dimensional plant architecture and sunlit-shaded patterns: a stochastic model of light dynamics in canopies. Annals of Botany, 122(2), 291–302. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcy067

Background and Aims Diurnal changes in solar position and intensity combined with the structural complexity of plant architecture result in highly variable and dynamic light patterns within the plant canopy. This affects productivity through the comp... Read More about Three-dimensional plant architecture and sunlit-shaded patterns: a stochastic model of light dynamics in canopies.

Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice (2018)
Journal Article
Hubbart, S., Smillie, I. R., Heatley, M., Swarup, R., Foo, C. C., Zhao, L., & Murchie, E. H. (2018). Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice. Communications Biology, 1, Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0026-6

High sunlight can raise plant growth rates but can potentially cause cellular damage. The likelihood of deleterious effects is lowered by a sophisticated set of photoprotective mechanisms, one of the most important being the controlled dissipation of... Read More about Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice.

Three-dimensional plant architecture and sunlit-shaded patterns: a stochastic model of light dynamics in canopies (2018)
Working Paper
Retkute, R., Townsend, A. J., Murchie, E. H., Jensen, O. E., & Preston, S. P. Three-dimensional plant architecture and sunlit-shaded patterns: a stochastic model of light dynamics in canopies

Background and Aims Diurnal changes in solar position and intensity combined with the structural complexity of plant architecture result in highly variable and dynamic light patterns within the plant canopy. This affects productivity through the comp... Read More about Three-dimensional plant architecture and sunlit-shaded patterns: a stochastic model of light dynamics in canopies.