Professor Julian Hibberd
Head of Department of Plant Sciences, Head of Molecular Physiology Group
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
