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Dr Jack Matthews

IWYP Call 2:
Manipulating Stomatal Blue Light Response in Wheat to Improve Productivity

Stomatal behaviour controls photosynthesis, water use and leaf temperature and these leaf pores are therefore an important, and unexploited, target for manipulation to improve crop productivity.

We will use a non-transgenic tilling approach to identify single mutations in a gene known to be essential in stomatal responses to blue light (BLUS1) in each of the wheat homoeologs (A, B and D) and use these to generate single, double and triple mutants in a variety of different backgrounds. Mutants generated will be phenotyped for gas-exchange, photosynthetic biochemistry and grain yield production in both controlled environment conditions and 2 different field environments.


​From this work we will deliver non-transgenic wheat plants with improved photosynthetic capacity throughout the crop cycle combined with better water use, and maximized productivity under a range of environmental conditions.
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Research Interests:
  • Role of Blue light in dynamic stomatal behaviour
  • Guard cell metabolism and stomatal function
  • Impact of fluctuating light on photosynthetic and stomatal acclimation.
  • Impact of Climate change on stomatal behaviour and terrestrial carbon and water relations

Publications:
First author:
Matthews, J.S., Vialet-Chabrand, S. and Lawson, T. (2020). Role of blue and red light in stomatal dynamic behaviour. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(7), pp.2253-2269

Lawson, T, and Matthews, J*. (2020). Guard cell metabolism and stomatal function. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 71.​

Matthews, J.S.A
, and Lawson, T. (2019). Climate Change and Stomatal Physiology. In Annual Plant Reviews online, J. A. Roberts (Ed.). doi:
10.1002/9781119312994.apr0667


Matthews, J.S.A*, Vialet-Chabrand, S. and Lawson, T. (2018). Acclimation to fluctuating light impacts the rapidity of response and diurnal rhythm of stomatal conductance. Plant Physiology, 176(3), pp.1939-1951.

Matthews, J.S.A*, Vialet-Chabrand, S.R*. and Lawson, T., (2017). Diurnal variation in gas exchange: the balance between carbon fixation and water loss. Plant Physiology, 174(2), pp.614-623.

Vialet-Chabrand. S*., Matthews. J. S. A*., Simkin. A. J., Raines. C. A. and Lawson. T. (2017) Importance of fluctuations in light on plant photosynthetic acclimation. Plant Physiology.
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Vialet-Chabrand, S.R*., Matthews, J.S.A*., McAusland, L., Blatt, M.R., Griffiths, H. and Lawson, T., (2017). Temporal dynamics of stomatal behavior: modeling and implications for photosynthesis and water use. Plant physiology, 174(2), pp.603-613.


Other publications:
Faralli, M., Matthews, J. and Lawson, T. (2019). Exploiting natural variation and genetic manipulation of stomatal conductance for crop improvement. Current opinion in plant biology, 49, pp.1-7

Vialet-Chabrand. S., Matthews. J. S. A., Brendel. O., Blatt. M., Wang. Y., Hills. A., Griffiths. H., Rogers. S., and Lawson. T. (2016). Modelling Water Use Efficiency in a Dynamic Environment. Plant Science. 251. pp. 65-74.

McAusland, L., Vialet-Chabrand, S. R. M., Matthews, J. S. A., & Lawson, T. (2015). Spatial and Temporal Responses in Stomatal Behaviour, Photosynthesis and Implications for Water-Use Efficiency. In Rhythms in Plants, 97–119. Springer International Publishing. 

Horrer, D., Flütsch, S., Pazmino, D., Matthews, J.S.A., Thalmann, M., Nigro, A., Leonhardt, N., Lawson, T. and Santelia, D., (2016). Blue Light Induces a Distinct Starch Degradation Pathway in Guard Cells for Stomatal Opening. Current Biology. 26(3), 362-370.

Bechtold, U., Penfold, C.A., Jenkins, D.J., Legaie, R., Moore, J.D., Lawson, T., Matthews, J.S.A., Vialet-Chabrand, S.R.M., et al.,  (2016). Time-series transcriptomics reveals that AGAMOUS-LIKE22 links primary metabolism to developmental processes in drought-stressed Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell, TPC2015-00910.
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  • About
  • Publications
  • Research
    • Projects >
      • Hy4Dense
      • TIGR2ESS
      • IWYP call 2
      • AAFC IWYP Aligned
      • EIRA
      • Photowheat
      • IWYP
      • Newton Institutional Links
      • Innovate UK
    • Capabilities and Quick guides
    • Techniques developed
    • Opportunities
  • Team
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