Fields of Research

Plant physiology
Crop and pasture improvement (incl. selection and breeding)

Research Objectives

Barley
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Horticultural crops
Other plant production and plant primary products
Berry fruit (excl. kiwifruit)

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Analysis of gas exchange, stomatal behaviour and micronutrients uncovers dynamic response and adaptation of tomato plants to monochromatic light treatments; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
Expressing Arabidopsis thaliana V-ATPase subunit C in barley (Hordeum vulgare) improves plant performance under saline condition by enabling better osmotic adjustment; Functional Plant Biology
Halophytic NHXs confer salt tolerance by altering cytosolic and vacuolar K⁺ and Na⁺ in Arabidopsis root cell; Plant Growth Regulation
Hypoxia sensing in plants: On a quest for ion channels as putative oxygen sensors; Plant and Cell Physiology
Linking stomatal traits and expression of slow anion channel genes HvSLAH1 and HvSLAC1 with grain yield for increasing salinity tolerance in barley; Frontiers in Plant Science
QTLs for stomatal and photosynthetic traits related to salinity tolerance in barley; BMC Genomics
Revealing the roles of GORK channels and NADPH oxidase in acclimation to hypoxia in Arabidopsis; Journal of Experimental Botany
The loss of RBOHD function modulates root adaptive responses to combined hypoxia and salinity stress in Arabidopsis; Environmental and Experimental Botany
Tissue-specific root ion profiling reveals essential roles of the CAX and ACA calcium transport systems in response to hypoxia in Arabidopsis; Journal of Experimental Botany

Research Projects

Research Candidate Supervision