Leaf day respiration (R d) strongly influences carbon‐use efficiencies of whole plants and
the global terrestrial biosphere. It has long been thought that R d is slower than respiration in …

Research into crop yield and resilience has underpinned global food security, evident in
yields tripling in the past 5 decades. The challenges that global agriculture now faces are …

Leaf dark respiration (R d) acclimates to environmental changes. However, the magnitude,
controls and time scales of acclimation remain unclear and are inconsistently treated in …

Measurements of respiratory properties have often been made at a single time point either
during daytime using dark-adapted leaves or during nighttime. The influence of the day …

Global nocturnal temperatures are rising more rapidly than daytime temperatures and have
a large effect on crop productivity. In particular, stomatal conductance at night (g sn) is …

We examined photosynthetic traits of pre-existing and newly developed flag leaves of four
wheat genotypes grown in controlled-environment experiments. In newly developed leaves …

An approach to improving radiation use efficiency (RUE) in wheat is to screen for variability
in rates of leaf respiration in darkness (R dark). We used a high-throughput system to …

A recent burst of technological innovation and adaptation has greatly improved our ability to
capture respiration rate data from plant sources. At the tissue level, several independent …

High temperature stress inhibits photosynthesis and threatens wheat production. One
measure of photosynthetic heat tolerance is T crit–the critical temperature at which incipient …

Alternative oxidase (AOX) is an important terminal oxidase involved in the alternative
oxidation pathway in plants, which is closely related to various biotic and abiotic stress …