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Professor (Chair) S. Seneweera
Specialized Areas
• Increasing CO2 threatens human nutrition.
• Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels this century will alter the protein, micronutrients, and vitamin content of rice grains with potential health consequences for the poorest rice-dependent countries.
• Arsenic speciation dynamics in paddy rice soil-water environment: sources, physico-chemical, and biological factors-a review.
• Influence of rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and temperature on growth, yield and grain quality of cereal crops.
• Effects of elevated carbon dioxide on photosynthesis and carbon partitioning: a perspective on root sugar sensing and hormonal crosstalk.
• Elevated atmospheric [CO2] can dramatically increase wheat yields in semi‐arid environments and buffer against heat waves.
• New insights into the cellular mechanisms of plant growth at elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
• Growth, grain yield and quality of rice (Oryza sativa L.) in response to elevated CO2 and phosphorus nutrition.
• Improving yield potential in crops under elevated CO2: integrating the photosynthetic and nitrogen utilization efficiencies.
• Myers, S.S., Zanobetti, A., Kloog, I., Huybers, P., Leakey, A.D., Bloom, A.J., Carlisle, E., Dietterich, L.H., Fitzgerald, G., Hasegawa, T. and Holbrook, N.M., 2014. Increasing CO2 threatens human nutrition. Nature, 510(7503), pp.139-142.
• Zhu, C., Kobayashi, K., Loladze, I., Zhu, J., Jiang, Q., Xu, X., Liu, G., Seneweera, S., Ebi, K.L., Drewnowski, A. and Fukagawa, N.K., 2018. Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels this century will alter the protein, micronutrients, and vitamin content of rice grains with potential health consequences for the poorest rice-dependent countries. Science advances, 4(5), p.eaaq1012.
• Kumarathilaka, P., Seneweera, S., Meharg, A. and Bundschuh, J., 2018. Arsenic speciation dynamics in paddy rice soil-water environment: sources, physico-chemical, and biological factors-a review. Water research, 140, pp.403-414.
• Conroy, J.P., Seneweera, S., Basra, A.S., Rogers, G. and Nissen-Wooller, B., 1994. Influence of rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and temperature on growth, yield and grain quality of cereal crops. Functional Plant Biology, 21(6), pp.741-758.
• Thompson, M., Gamage, D., Hirotsu, N., Martin, A. and Seneweera, S., 2017. Effects of elevated carbon dioxide on photosynthesis and carbon partitioning: a perspective on root sugar sensing and hormonal crosstalk. Frontiers in Physiology, 8, p.578.
• Fitzgerald, G.J., Tausz, M., O’Leary, G., Mollah, M.R., Tausz‐Posch, S., Seneweera, S., Mock, I., Löw, M., Partington, D.L., McNeil, D. and Norton, R.M., 2016. Elevated atmospheric [CO2] can dramatically increase wheat yields in semi‐arid environments and buffer against heat waves. Global change biology, 22(6), pp.2269-2284.
• Gamage, D., Thompson, M., Sutherland, M., Hirotsu, N., Makino, A. and Seneweera, S., 2018. New insights into the cellular mechanisms of plant growth at elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Plant, cell & environment, 41(6), pp.1233-1246.
• Seneweera, S.P. and Conroy, J.P., 1997. Growth, grain yield and quality of rice (Oryza sativa L.) in response to elevated CO2 and phosphorus nutrition. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 43(sup1), pp.1131-1136.
• Kant, S., Seneweera, S., Rodin, J., Materne, M., Burch, D., Rothstein, S.J. and Spangenberg, G., 2012. Improving yield potential in crops under elevated CO2: integrating the photosynthetic and nitrogen utilization efficiencies. Frontiers in Plant Science, 3, p.162.