Photosynthesis

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of the constituent polypeptides of the B-800--850 light-harvesting pigment-protein complex from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. 
  • A stomatal optimization theory to describe the effects of atmospheric CO2 on leaf photosynthesis and transpiration. 
  • Aboveground sink strength in forests controls the allocation of carbon below ground and its [CO2]-induced enhancement. 
  • An obligately photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. 
  • Analysis of the sensitivity of absorbed light and incident light profile to various canopy architecture and stand conditions 
  • Anatomical changes with needle length are correlated with leaf structural and physiological traits across five Pinus species. 
  • Are ecosystem carbon inputs andoutputs coupled at short time scales? A case study from adjacent pine and hardwood forests using impulse-response analysis 
  • Bacterial photosynthesis in surface waters of the open ocean. 
  • Biochemistry. Photosynthesis from the protein's perspective. 
  • Canopy leaf area constrains [CO2]-induced enhancement of productivity and partitioning among aboveground carbon pools. 
  • Causality and persistence in ecological systems: a nonparametric spectral granger causality approach. 
  • Choreography of the transcriptome, photophysiology, and cell cycle of a minimal photoautotroph, prochlorococcus. 
  • Climate and lawn management interact to control C4 plant distribution in residential lawns across seven U.S. cities. 
  • Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought. 
  • Concerted O atom-proton transfer in the O-O bond forming step in water oxidation. 
  • Confirmation of the involvement of protein domain movement during the catalytic cycle of the cytochrome bc1 complex by the formation of an intersubunit disulfide bond between cytochrome b and the iron-sulfur protein. 
  • Constraints on physiological function associated with branch architecture and wood density in tropical forest trees. 
  • Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO₂ as water supply varies. 
  • Contribution of aerobic photoheterotrophic bacteria to the carbon cycle in the ocean. 
  • Contribution of various carbon sources toward isoprene biosynthesis in poplar leaves mediated by altered atmospheric CO2 concentrations. 
  • Decadal biomass increment in early secondary succession woody ecosystems is increased by CO₂ enrichment. 
  • Dependence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus on hydrogen peroxide scavenging microbes for growth at the ocean's surface. 
  • Differential gene expression associated with fungal trophic shifts along the senescence gradient of the moss Dicranum scoparium. 
  • Differential responses to changes in growth temperature between trees from different functional groups and biomes: a review and synthesis of data. 
  • Dynamics of soil CO₂ efflux under varying atmospheric CO₂ concentrations reveal dominance of slow processes. 
  • Effects of calcium on seed germination, seedling growth and photosynthesis of six forest tree species under simulated acid rain. 
  • Electron-tunneling pathways in proteins. 
  • Elevated CO₂ enhances leaf senescence during extreme drought in a temperate forest. 
  • Endosymbiosis. 
  • Engineering opposite electronic polarization of singlet and triplet states increases the yield of high-energy photoproducts. 
  • Enhanced isoprene-related tolerance of heat- and light-stressed photosynthesis at low, but not high, CO2 concentrations. 
  • Estimating canopy gross primary production by combining phloem stable isotopes with canopy and mesophyll conductances. 
  • Evidence for the intertwined dimer of the cytochrome bc(1) complex in solution. 
  • Expression of photosynthesis genes in relation to nitrogen fixation in the diazotrophic filamentous nonheterocystous cyanobacterium Trichodesmium sp. IMS 101. 
  • Expression profiling and local adaptation of Boechera holboellii populations for water use efficiency across a naturally occurring water stress gradient. 
  • Fertilization has little effect on light-interception efficiency of Picea abies shoots. 
  • Fine-root respiration in a loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) forest exposed to elevated CO2 and N fertilization. 
  • Functional coordination between leaf gas exchange and vulnerability to xylem cavitation in temperate forest trees. 
  • Gender-specific floral and physiological traits: implications for the maintenance of females in gynodioecious Lobelia siphilitica. 
  • Glucose-Induced Trophic Shift in an Endosymbiont Dinoflagellate with Physiological and Molecular Consequences. 
  • Highly conjugated, acetylenyl bridged porphyrins: new models for light-harvesting antenna systems. 
  • How well do growing season dynamics of photosynthetic capacity correlate with leaf biochemistry and climate fluctuations? 
  • Hydraulic time constants for transpiration of loblolly pine at a free-air carbon dioxide enrichment site 
  • Hydrogen sulphide enhances photosynthesis through promoting chloroplast biogenesis, photosynthetic enzyme expression, and thiol redox modification in Spinacia oleracea seedlings. 
  • Identification of quantitative trait loci and a candidate locus for freezing tolerance in controlled and outdoor environments in the overwintering crucifer Boechera stricta. 
  • Identification of the carotenoid present in the B-800-850 antenna complex from Rhodopseudomonas capsulata as that which responds electrochromically to transmembrane electric fields. 
  • Impaired Chloroplast Biogenesis in Immutans, an Arabidopsis Variegation Mutant, Modifies Developmental Programming, Cell Wall Composition and Resistance to Pseudomonas syringae. 
  • In situ activity of a dominant Prochlorococcus ecotype (eHL-II) from rRNA content and cell size. 
  • Increasing atmospheric CO2 reduces metabolic and physiological differences between isoprene- and non-isoprene-emitting poplars. 
  • Increasing water use efficiency along the C3 to C4 evolutionary pathway: a stomatal optimization perspective. 
  • Individual variability in tree allometry determines light resource allocation in forest ecosystems: a hierarchical Bayesian approach. 
  • Inference of Gene Regulatory Network Uncovers the Linkage between Circadian Clock and Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in Kalanchoë fedtschenkoi. 
  • Instantaneous stomatal optimization results in suboptimal carbon gain due to legacy effects. 
  • Interactive effects of supplemental UV-B and temperature in European aspen seedlings: Implications for growth, leaf traits, phenolic defense and associated organisms. 
  • Leaf-level gas-exchange uniformity and photosynthetic capacity among loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) genotypes of contrasting inherent genetic variation. 
  • Marine diatom proteorhodopsins and their potential role in coping with low iron availability. 
  • Maximizing leaf carbon gain in varying saline conditions: An optimization model with dynamic mesophyll conductance. 
  • Mechanisms for minimizing height-related stomatal conductance declines in tall vines. 
  • Modelling photosynthesis in highly dynamic environments: the case of sunflecks. 
  • NCP activates chloroplast transcription by controlling phytochrome-dependent dual nuclear and plastidial switches. 
  • NanoSIMS single cell analyses reveal the contrasting nitrogen sources for small phytoplankton. 
  • Natural variation, differentiation, and genetic trade-offs of ecophysiological traits in response to water limitation in Brachypodium distachyon and its descendent allotetraploid B. hybridum (Poaceae). 
  • Nitrogen-addition effects on leaf traits and photosynthetic carbon gain of boreal forest understory shrubs. 
  • Nonlinear dynamics of the CAM circadian rhythm in response to environmental forcing. 
  • Nonlinear grassland responses to past and future atmospheric CO(2). 
  • On the complementary relationship between marginal nitrogen and water-use efficiencies among Pinus taeda leaves grown under ambient and CO2-enriched environments. 
  • Optimizing the statistical estimation of the parameters of the Farquhar-von Caemmerer-Berry model of photosynthesis. 
  • Organic nitrogen uptake of Scots pine seedlings is independent of current carbohydrate supply. 
  • Partitioning interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange between climatic variability and functional change. 
  • Photoperiodic regulation of the seasonal pattern of photosynthetic capacity and the implications for carbon cycling. 
  • Photosynthesis and biomass allocation of radish cv. "Cherry Belle" in response to root temperature and ozone. 
  • Photosynthesis genes in marine viruses yield proteins during host infection. 
  • Photosynthetic differences between saplings and adult trees: an integration of field results by meta-analysis. 
  • Photosynthetic maximum quantum yield increases are an essential component of the Southern Ocean phytoplankton response to iron 
  • Photosynthetic refixation varies along the stem and reduces CO2 efflux in mature boreal Pinus sylvestris trees. 
  • Potassium supply modulates Eucalyptus leaf water-status under PEG-induced osmotic stress: integrating leaf gas exchange, carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition and plant growth. 
  • Re-assessment of plant carbon dynamics at the Duke free-air CO(2) enrichment site: interactions of atmospheric [CO(2)] with nitrogen and water availability over stand development. 
  • Rising CO2 levels and the fecundity of forest trees. 
  • Role of aquaporins in determining transpiration and photosynthesis in water-stressed plants: crop water-use efficiency, growth and yield. 
  • Sex-related differences in growth and carbon allocation to defence in Populus tremula as explained by current plant defence theories. 
  • Shoot structure and photosynthetic efficiency along the light gradient in a Scots pine canopy. 
  • Short-term effects of fertilization on photosynthesis and leaf morphology of field-grown loblolly pine following long-term exposure to elevated CO(2) concentration. 
  • Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment: Carbon Cycling in High- and Low-Si Waters 
  • Stoichiometry and daily rhythms: experimental evidence shows nutrient limitation decouples N uptake from photosynthesis. 
  • Structural adjustments in resprouting trees drive differences in post-fire transpiration. 
  • Suppression of water-bloom cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa by algaecide hydrogen peroxide maximized through programmed cell death. 
  • Systematic characterization of gene function in the photosynthetic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. 
  • The complete genome sequence of Roseobacter denitrificans reveals a mixotrophic rather than photosynthetic metabolism. 
  • The effects of elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization on stomatal conductance estimated from 11 years of scaled sap flux measurements at Duke FACE 
  • The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective. 
  • The molecular identity of the characean OH^- transporter: a candidate related to the SLC4 family of animal pH regulators. 
  • Transfer of photosynthesis genes to and from Prochlorococcus viruses. 
  • Using δ13C and δ18O to analyze loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) response to experimental drought and fertilization. 
  • Variability of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence according to stand age-related processes in a managed loblolly pine forest. 
  • Vertical distribution and characterization of aerobic phototrophic bacteria at the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean.