Robert T. Furbank

The paper shows that chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signalling pathways are cell-specific in C4 plants, correlating with photosynthetic specialisation in mesophyll and bundle sheath cells.

This study demonstrates that four core C4 pathway reactions are operating in transgenic rice, establishing in vivo flux for a functional carbon-concentrating mechanism.

The paper investigates the role of PsbS in C4 plants under fluctuating light and finds that qE provides limited adaptive benefit compared to C3 plants.

The paper updates a C4 photosynthesis model and provides fitting routines to estimate key parameters from CO2 and irradiance response curves using gas exchange measurements.

This study shows that PGR5 enables efficient C4 photosynthesis under fluctuating light by supporting proton motive force and energy-dependent non-photochemical quenching.

This study identifies distinct roles of PGRL1 paralogs in photoprotection within C4 photosynthesis, showing PGRL1{beta} enables rapid photoprotection while PGRL1 maintains oxidation under steady-state high light.