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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences School of Integrative Biology

Tracy Lawson

Professor

Education

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

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Plant Biology

Recent Publications

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

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

Battle, M. W., Vialet-Chabrand, S., Kasznicki, P., Simkin, A. J., & Lawson, T. (2024). Fast stomatal kinetics in sorghum enable tight coordination with photosynthetic responses to dynamic light intensity and safeguard high water use efficiency. Journal of experimental botany, 75(21), 6796-6809. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae389

Busch, F. A., Ainsworth, E. A., Amtmann, A., Cavanagh, A. P., Driever, S. M., Ferguson, J. N., Kromdijk, J., Lawson, T., Leakey, A. D. B., Matthews, J. S. A., Meacham-Hensold, K., Vath, R. L., Vialet-Chabrand, S., Walker, B. J., & Papanatsiou, M. (2024). A guide to photosynthetic gas exchange measurements: Fundamental principles, best practice and potential pitfalls. Plant Cell and Environment, 47(9), 3344-3364. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14815

Croce, R., Carmo-Silva, E., Cho, Y. B., Ermakova, M., Harbinson, J., Lawson, T., McCormick, A. J., Niyogi, K. K., Ort, D. R., Patel-Tupper, D., Pesaresi, P., Raines, C., Weber, A. P. M., & Zhu, X. G. (2024). Perspectives on improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield. Plant Cell, 36(10), 3944-3973. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koae132

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