Professor

Education

Plant Physiology, PhD,
Applied Biology , Bsc (Hons),

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Plant Biology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Chen, T., Hojka, M., Davey, P., Sun, Y., Zhou, F., Lawson, T., Nixon, P. J., Lin, Y., & Liu, L. N. (2025). Engineering Rubisco condensation in chloroplasts to manipulate plant photosynthesis. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 23(6), 2140-2149. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70047

Eichelsbacher, S., Luksch, C. R., Bienert, G. P., Alcock, T. D., Steppe, K., Marcelis, L. F. M., Orsini, F., Rosenqvist, E., Lambers, H., Runkle, E., Lawson, T., & Asseng, S. (2025). What Is the Limit of Vertical Farming Productivity? Food and Energy Security, 14(2), Article e70061. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.70061

Ferguson, J. N., Caproni, L., Walter, J., Shaw, K., Arce-Cubas, L., Baines, A., Thein, M. S., Mager, S., Taylor, G., Cackett, L., Mathan, J., Vath, R. L., Martin, L., Genty, B., Pè, M. E., Lawson, T., Dell'acqua, M., & Kromdijk, J. (2025). A deficient CP24 allele defines variation for dynamic nonphotochemical quenching and photosystem II efficiency in maize. Plant Cell, 37(4), Article koaf063. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf063

Gill, A. R., Phillips, A. L., Tyerman, S. D., Lawson, T., Cavagnaro, T. R., Burton, R. A., & Loveys, B. R. (2025). Water conservation and assimilation is driven by stomatal behaviour in industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.). Environmental and Experimental Botany, 232, Article 106119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2025.106119

Hofmann, T. A., Atkinson, W., Fan, M., Simkin, A. J., Jindal, P., & Lawson, T. (2025). Impact of climate-driven changes in temperature on stomatal anatomy and physiology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 380(1927), Article 20240244. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0244

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