Maria Ermakova
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Maria Ermakova
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Plant 🌱 Energy ☀️ Biotechnology 🧬 Group leader at the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University

📍Melbourne, Australia
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Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops

#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank

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November 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Russell Woodford and co-authors find an essential role of PGR5 in enabling efficient C4 photosynthesis under fluctuating light by regulating photosynthetic control and energy-dependent non-photochemical quenching. doi.org/10.1093/plph...
October 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 enables efficient C4 photosynthesis under fluctuating light url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

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PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 enables efficient C4 photosynthesis under fluctuating light
The Proton Gradient Regulation 5 protein supports photosynthetic control and energy-dependent non-photochemical quenching to protect Photosystem I in C4
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October 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Andrew Willoughby from the Nimchuk Lab at UNC wrote this great intro to RUBY for the Addgene blog! blog.addgene.org/ruby-red-sil...
RUBY-Red Siliques
RUBY-red is a new plant marker that uses a bright red color for easy identification of transgenic plants.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Was great to celebrate the acceptance of the first PhD student’s paper coming from my lab! 🥳 Congrats to Russell Woodford, thanks to all co-authors and cheers for many more to come 🥂
September 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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🚩To all attendees of the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on #Photosynthesis and to the wider #PlantScience community, don't miss our Special Issue on Photosynthesis
-out later this year!

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July 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Melbourne Plant Science Community! We have an opportunity to get together again for a seminar of Prof Christine Raines, a pioneer in genetic engineering of plants for improved photosynthesis and growth. Come on Feb 18, 10.30am to LaTrobe City Campus, room 2.15. Please repost & share with colleagues!
January 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Enrique Lopez-Juez from Royal Holloway talked about the importance of practicals (👍👍👍👍👍 agreed). The SEB has a portal with same practicals for higher education, see below.
#PlantSciEd
www.sebiology.org/outreach/bio...
Repository of biology practicals
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January 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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📢Preprint alert! We found a new PGRL1 paralog which evolved in grasses. Modelling suggests it has a distinct lumen-exposed region, compared to ‘conventional’ PGRL1, which could provide faster regulation of photoprotection. The two PGRL1s are expressed in different cell types in NADP-ME C4 grasses!
December 4, 2024 at 6:29 AM
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Here is a starter to a starter pack for the Aus plant science community. Let’s rebuild. #plantscience

Let me know if you want to be added. Help me find more.
go.bsky.app/AiLTKHH
November 15, 2024 at 10:21 PM