Publications by authors named "Kaila E Smith"
The effect of including triose phosphate utilization (TPU) on parameterization of the Farquhar, von Caemmerer, Berry model of photosynthetic gas exchange measurements is explored. Better fits to data are found even though TPU rarely limits photosynthesis under physiological conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPremise: Leaf morphology is dynamic, continuously deforming during leaf expansion and among leaves within a shoot. Here, we measured the leaf morphology of more than 200 grapevines ( spp.) over four years and modeled changes in leaf shape along the shoot to determine whether a composite leaf shape comprising all the leaves from a single shoot can better capture the variation and predict species identity compared with individual leaves.
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- Flavonoids play key roles in plant development and are mostly stored in the vacuole; cyanidin 3-O-glucoside (C3G) uptake involves both an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter and an H-antiporter in Arabidopsis.
- The ABC protein AtABCC2 in yeast can transport C3G and other anthocyanins using MgATP and relies on the co-transport of glutathione (GSH), without altering C3G during transport.
- Research involved ligand docking and site-directed mutagenesis to identify critical residues for substrate binding in AtABCC2, supporting the idea that both C3G and GSH enhance each other's binding during the vacuolar