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Beth Dyson
BBSRC funded Postdoc
Project: Fumarate Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Photosynthesis
is increasingly being recognised as a limting factor in the
productivity of crop plants. Under many environmental conditions,
the ability of plants to export or assimilate fixed carbon becomes
limited for photosynthesis, leading to feed-back inhibition and down
regulation of CO2 fixaiton. In this project, joint with Caroline
Bowsher, Roy Goodacre and Jean Marc Schwartz, we are exploring the
possibility of enhancing transient stores of carbon in the leaf,
focussing on fumaric acid as a substrate for storage.
Email: beth.dyson@manchester.ac.uk
