Asaph B. Cousins

The paper quantifies the heritability of leaf stable carbon isotope signature in Sorghum bicolor and identifies genetic factors influencing it.

This study examines the impact of PEPC phosphorylation by PEPC-PK in Zea mays mutants, finding that while phosphorylation affects in vitro enzyme sensitivity to malate, it does not significantly alter photosynthetic performance or growth under field conditions.

This study shows plant cells tolerate high rates of organellar mistranslation, with plastids being more lenient than mitochondria, and reveals differences in stress responses.

This paper uses genome editing to relocalize carbonic anhydrase activity in rice, achieving a key step in C4 photosynthesis evolution and revealing a new role for chloroplast CA in photosynthetic induction.

The paper develops and compares three methods to measure in situ volumes of Arabidopsis leaf plastids using microscopy techniques and mutant lines, finding average volumes of 93 µm³ for mesophyll chloroplasts and 18 µm³ for guard cell plastids.

The paper improves signal-to-noise ratios in field trials by using spatial principal component regression to control for soil property effects on plant traits and microbiomes.