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Professor Graham Farquhar
Distinguished Professor, FAA, FRS
Environmental Biology Group
Research School of Biological Sciences
GPO Box 475
Canberra ACT 2601

Personal Website Address
Email: farquhar@rsbs.anu.edu.au

Research Aims
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The Big Picture

  • Integration of photosynthesis and growth with nitrogen and water use of plants
  • Stomatal physiology
  • Isotopic composition of plants
  • Global change science

The Short-Term Goals

  • To apply hydrogen isotope measurements to develop an improved model of stomatal functioning to plants.

Group (lab) Members and areas of research
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  • Dr Tom Buckley Post Doctoral Fellow
  • Dr Matthias Cuntz Post Doctoral Fellow
  • Dr Suan Chin Wong Research Officer
  • Dr Hilary Stuart Williams Research Officer
Funding
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Farquhar GD, Andrews J, Stuart-Williams H, Kane H. Using the fractionation of hydrogen and carbon isotopes to analyse the mechanism of the primary processes of photosynthesis. ARC Discovery Grant ($360,000 for 2003 -2005)

Techniques in the Laboratory
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  • Gas exchange of leaves
  • Carbon and oxygen isotope composition of plants and hydrogen isotop composition.
Main areas of expertise
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Top three areas of knowledge

  1. Photosynthesis
  2. water-use efficiency
  3. global change biology

Top three technical skills

  1. Gas exchange,
  2. isotopic discrimination,
  3. modelling of the above.
A statement on your most significant contributions to this research field
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Our mathematical models of photosynthesis and carbon istope discrimination are widely used. We have developed a technique for detecting variation in water-use efficiency and this is now used as a practical breeding tool.

Other evidence of impact and contributions to the field
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Academic Awards and Distinctions

1988 Elected to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science
1991 Elected to Corresponding Membership of the American Society of Plant Physiologists
1991 CSIRO Medal for research achievement
1995 Elected to Fellowship of Royal Society
1996 Science adviser and Australian delegate to framework Convention of Climate Change, Conference of Parties, Kyoto
2001 Leading Australian Citation Laureate
2001 CSIRO Medal for team research
2002 Member, Minister's consultative Panel on National Research Priorities
2003 Member of Minister's Reference Group on Mapping Australia's Science and Innovation System

 
Publications - Last 5 Years
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Books

  • Plants in Action: Adaptation in Nature, Performance in Cultivation. 1999. B Atwell, P Kriedemann, C Turnbull (eds). D. Eamus, R. Bieleski (Co-eds.) G. Farquhar (Consulting ed.). Macmillan

Book Chapters

  • von Caemmerer, S and Farquhar, GD . (1999) Leaf gas exchange: a case study on development of A:p i curves. In 'Plants in Action'. BJ Atwell et al . (eds), Macmillan Press, Melbourne. Chapter 1.

  • Lim, B, Farquhar, GD , and Ravindranath , NH . (2000) Implications of the Kyoto Protocol for the Reporting Guidelines. Chapter 6 in RT Watson, IR Noble et al. eds. Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press.

  • Brugnoli, E. and Farquhar, GD . (2000) Photosynthetic fractionation of carbon isotopes. In Photosynthesis: Physiology and Metabolism (Advances in Photosynthesis Volume 9), RC Leegood, TD Sharkey, S von Caemmerer (eds). Kluwer Academic Publishers..pp. 399-434.

  • Prentice, IC, Farquhar, GD , Fasham, M., Goulden, M., Jaramillo, V., Kheshgi, H., Quere, C., Scholes, R. and Wallace, D., (2001). The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric CO 2 . Pp 183-237 in "Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group 1 to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" (Houghton, J. T., Y. Ding, D. J. Griggs, M. Noguer, P. J. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell, and C. A. Johnson eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , United Kingdom and New York

  • Roderick ML, Farquhar GD (2003) The pan evaporation paradox. In: Steffen W,Sanderson A, Tyson P, Jäger J, Matson P, Moore III B, Oldfield F,Richardson K, Schellnhuber H-J, Turner II BL, Wasson R (eds) Global Changeand the Earth System: A Planet Under Pressure. IGBP Global Change Series.Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York. March 2003.

  • Barbour MM, Cernusak LA, Farquhar GD . Factors affecting the oxygen isotope ratio of plant organic material. In: LB Flanagan ed. Stable Isotopes in Biosphere Atmosphere Interactions . (October 2003)

  • Gan KS , Wong SC and Farquhar GD . Oxygen isotope analysis of plant water without extraction procedure. In: Handbook of Stable Isotope Analytical Techniques . Volume I, ed. Pier A de Groot, Elsevier ( June 2003)

 

Ten Career Best Publications
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  1. Wong , SC , Cowan, IR and Farquhar, GD (1979) Stomatal conductance correlates with photosynthetic capacity. Nature 282: 424-426.

  2. Farquhar, GD , von Caemmerer, S and Berry , JA (1980) A biochemical model of photosynthetic CO 2 assimilation in leaves of C 3 species. Planta 149: 78-90.

  3. von Caemmerer, S and Farquhar, GD (1981) Some relationships between the biochemistry of photosynthesis and the gas exchange of leaves. Planta 153: 376-387.

  4. Farquhar, GD , O'Leary, MH and Berry , JA (1982) On the relationship between carbon isotope discrimination and the intercellular carbon dioxide concentration in leaves. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 9: 121-137.

  5. Farquhar, GD and Richards, RA (1984) Isotopic composition of plant carbon correlates with water-use efficiency of wheat genotypes. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 11: 539-552.

  6. Farquhar, GD , Ehleringer, Jr and Hubick, KT (1989) Carbon isotope discrimination and photosynthesis. Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. Mol. Biol. 40: 503-537.

  7. Farquhar, GD , Lloyd, J, Taylor, JA, Flanagan, LB, Syvertsen, JP, Hubick, KT, Wong, SC and Ehleringer, JR (1993) Vegetation effects on the isotopic composition of oxygen in atmospheric CO 2 . Nature 363: 439-443.

  8. Barbour, MM, Fischer, RA, Sayre, KD and Farquhar, GD . (2000) Oxygen isotope ratio of leaf and grain material correlates with stomatal conductance and grain yield in irrigated wheat. Aust. J. Plant Physiol 27: 625-637

  9. Rebetzke, GJ, Condon AG, Richards, RA, and. Farquhar, GD . (2002) Selection for reduced carbon isotope discrimination increases aerial biomass and grain yield of rainfed bread wheat. Crop Science 42:739-745

  10. Roderick ML and Farquhar GD (2002) The cause of decreased pan evaporation over the last 50 years. Science 298: 1410-1411

 

 

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