Education
Plant Physiology, PhD,
Applied Biology , Bsc (Hons),
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Plant Biology
Adjunct Professor, Crop Sciences
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Araújo, W. L., Busch, F. A., Lawson, T., Scoffoni, C., Zhu, X., & Zsögön, A. (2026). Focus issue editorial: ecophysiology. Plant physiology, 200(4), Article kiag166. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiag166
Blatt, M. R., Hills, A., Lawson, T., & Magill, J. (2026). Cell wall water shields stomata against falling leaf airspace humidity. New Phytologist, 250(2), 861-872. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70998
Breil-Aubert, M., Shaw, K., Royles, J., Sales, C. R. G., Walter, J., Taylor, G., Vath, R. L., Bdolach, E., Tiwari, L. D., Mathan, J., Lawson, T., Fridman, E., Kromdijk, J., & Ferguson, J. N. (2026). Extensive photophysiological variation in wild barley is linked to environmental origin. New Phytologist, 249(1), 569-587. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70659
Lemonnier, P., Wall, S., Gherli, H., Moreno-Garcia, B., Afamefule, C., Lawson, T., Raines, C. A., & Lopez-Calcagno, P. E. (2026). Simultaneous overexpression of three enzymes of chloroplast metabolism fails to improve CO2 assimilation or biomass. Journal of experimental botany, 77(12), 3837-3848. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erag121
Stevens, J., Davey, P., Kasznicki, P., Hofmann, T. A., & Lawson, T. (2026). Green instructions: Intelligent lighting via real-time chlorophyll fluorescence feedback: Enhancing yield and energy efficiency in controlled environment agriculture. Smart Agricultural Technology, 13, Article 101593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2025.101593