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Overview

J. Andrew C. Smith is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a marked focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Additional areas of study include Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Food Science.

The main topics covered in their work consist of:

  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Algal Biology and Biofuel Production
  • Botanical Research and Applications
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
  • Light Effects on Plants

Smith has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Klaus Winter
  • Ian S. Gilman
  • Rowan F. Sage
  • Katia Silvera
  • Erika J. Edwards

Notable recent publications authored or co-authored by Smith span a range of subjects relevant to plant biology and photosynthesis. These include:

  • "CAM photosynthesis: the acid test," 2021, New Phytologist
  • "The CAM lineages of planet Earth," 2023, Annals of Botany
  • "Low-level CAM photosynthesis in a succulent-leaved member of the Urticaceae, Pilea peperomioides," 2020, Functional Plant Biology
  • "Atmospheric CO2 decline and the timing of CAM plant evolution," 2023, Annals of Botany
  • "Drought-tolerant succulent plants as an alternative crop under future global warming scenarios in sub-Saharan Africa," 2023, GCB Bioenergy

Smith has published multiple articles in key journals such as New Phytologist and Annals of Botany, each with two contributions. Other publication venues include Functional Plant Biology, GCB Bioenergy, and Ecology and Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Free histidine as a metal chelator in plants that accumulate nickel

    Ute Krämer;Janet D. Cotter-Howells;Janet D. Cotter-Howells;John M. Charnock;Alan J. M. Baker

  • The pineapple genome and the evolution of CAM photosynthesis

    Ray Ming;Ray Ming;Robert VanBuren;Robert VanBuren;Robert VanBuren;Ching Man Wai;Ching Man Wai;Haibao Tang;Haibao Tang

  • Phylogeny, adaptive radiation, and historical biogeography in Bromeliaceae: Insights from an eight-locus plastid phylogeny

    Thomas J. Givnish;Michael H. J. Barfuss;Benjamin Van Ee;Benjamin Van Ee;Ricarda Riina;Ricarda Riina

  • The genetic basis of metal hyperaccumulation in plants

    A. Joseph Pollard;Keri Dandridge Powell;Frances A. Harper;J. Andrew C. Smith

  • Exploiting the potential of plants with crassulacean acid metabolism for bioenergy production on marginal lands

    Anne M. Borland;Howard Griffiths;James Hartwell;J. Andrew C. Smith

  • Adaptive radiation, correlated and contingent evolution, and net species diversification in Bromeliaceae

    Thomas J. Givnish;Michael H.J. Barfuss;Benjamin Van Ee;Ricarda Riina

  • Multiple origins of crassulacean acid metabolism and the epiphytic habit in the Neotropical family Bromeliaceae

    Darren M. Crayn;Klaus Winter;J. Andrew C. Smith

  • Natural variation in cadmium tolerance and its relationship to metal hyperaccumulation for seven populations of Thlaspi caerulescens from western Europe

    N. Roosens;N. Roosens;N. Verbruggen;P. Meerts;P. Ximénez-Embún

  • The regulatory roles of ethylene and reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plant salt stress responses.

    Ming Zhang;J. Andrew C. Smith;Nicholas P. Harberd;Caifu Jiang

  • Tonoplast Na+/H+ Antiport Activity and Its Energization by the Vacuolar H+-ATPase in the Halophytic Plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.

    B. J. Barkla;L. Zingarelli;E. Blumwald;J. A. C. Smith

  • An Arabidopsis Soil-Salinity–Tolerance Mutation Confers Ethylene-Mediated Enhancement of Sodium/Potassium Homeostasis

    Caifu Jiang;Eric J. Belfield;Yi Cao;J. Andrew C. Smith

  • A roadmap for research on crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) to enhance sustainable food and bioenergy production in a hotter, drier world.

    Xiaohan Yang;John C. Cushman;Anne M. Borland;Anne M. Borland;Erika J. Edwards

  • Constitutively High Expression of the Histidine Biosynthetic Pathway Contributes to Nickel Tolerance in Hyperaccumulator Plants

    Robert A. Ingle;Sam T. Mugford;Jonathan D. Rees;Malcolm M. Campbell

  • ROS-mediated vascular homeostatic control of root-to-shoot soil Na delivery in Arabidopsis

    Caifu Jiang;Eric J Belfield;Aziz Mithani;Aziz Mithani;Anne Visscher

  • Water-relation Parameters of Individual Mesophyll Cells of the Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Plant Kalanchoë daigremontiana.

    Ernst Steudle;J. Andrew C. Smith;Ulrich Lüttge

  • The Kalanchoë genome provides insights into convergent evolution and building blocks of crassulacean acid metabolism

    Xiaohan Yang;Xiaohan Yang;Rongbin Hu;Hengfu Yin;Jerry Jenkins

  • Salt regulation of transcript levels for the c subunit of a leaf vacuolar H(+)-ATPase in the halophyte Mesembryanthemum crystallinum.

    M. S. Tsiantis;D. M. Bartholomew;J. A. C. Smith

  • Secondary Transporters for Nickel and Cobalt Ions: Theme and Variations

    Thomas Eitinger;Jennifer Suhr;Jennifer Suhr;Lucy Moore;J Andrew C Smith

  • Chelation by histidine inhibits the vacuolar sequestration of nickel in roots of the hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens

    Kerstin H. Richau;Anna D. Kozhevnikova;Ilya V. Seregin;Riet Vooijs

  • Micro-PIXE as a technique for studying nickel localization in leaves of the hyperaccumulator plant Alyssum lesbiacum

    U. Krämer;G.W. Grime;J.A.C. Smith;C.R. Hawes

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Winter
Klaus Winter Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Ray Ming
Ray Ming University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anne M. Borland
Anne M. Borland Newcastle University
Darren M. Crayn
Darren M. Crayn James Cook University
John C. Cushman
John C. Cushman University of Nevada Reno
Gail M. Preston
Gail M. Preston University of Oxford
Nicholas P. Harberd
Nicholas P. Harberd University of Oxford
Joseph A. M. Holtum
Joseph A. M. Holtum James Cook University
Gerald A. Tuskan
Gerald A. Tuskan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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