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Plant Science and Agronomy
Australia
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
104
Citations
31168
World Ranking
132
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Australia Leader Award
  • 2008 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Enzyme
  • Gene
  • Photosynthesis

Murray R. Badger mostly deals with Photosynthesis, Biochemistry, Carboxysome, RuBisCO and Cyanobacteria. The subject of his Photosynthesis research is within the realm of Botany. As a part of the same scientific family, Murray R. Badger mostly works in the field of Biochemistry, focusing on Biophysics and, on occasion, Photoprotection.

His Carboxysome research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Insertional mutagenesis and Mutant. His RuBisCO study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Pyrenoid and Carbon fixation. His research in Cyanobacteria intersects with topics in Adaptation, Bacterial microcompartment, Ribulose and Function.

His most cited work include:

  • The Role of Carbonic Anhydrase in Photosynthesis (612 citations)
  • CO2 concentrating mechanisms in cyanobacteria: molecular components, their diversity and evolution (602 citations)
  • Photoprotection in plants: a new light on photosystem II damage (586 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary scientific interests are in Photosynthesis, Biochemistry, RuBisCO, Botany and Cyanobacteria. His work deals with themes such as Biophysics, Chloroplast, Carbon dioxide and Algae, which intersect with Photosynthesis. Biochemistry is closely attributed to Synechococcus in his work.

His RuBisCO research incorporates themes from Enzyme assay, Pyrenoid, Nicotiana tabacum, Carboxylation and Substrate. His study on Photoinhibition, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll fluorescence and Mehler reaction is often connected to Mechanism as part of broader study in Botany. His Cyanobacteria research integrates issues from Total inorganic carbon, Gene and Function.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Photosynthesis (59.05%)
  • Biochemistry (50.00%)
  • RuBisCO (37.14%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2021)?

  • Photosynthesis (59.05%)
  • RuBisCO (37.14%)
  • Biochemistry (50.00%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Murray R. Badger spends much of his time researching Photosynthesis, RuBisCO, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Carboxysome. Murray R. Badger usually deals with Photosynthesis and limits it to topics linked to Chloroplast and Enzyme. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Arabidopsis thaliana and Carbon fixation.

In his research on the topic of Carbon fixation, Pyrenoid is strongly related with Carbonic anhydrase. Murray R. Badger works mostly in the field of Biochemistry, limiting it down to topics relating to Synechococcus and, in certain cases, Cytosol, as a part of the same area of interest. His Carboxysome study improves the overall literature in Cyanobacteria.

Between 2011 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Functions, Compositions, and Evolution of the Two Types of Carboxysomes: Polyhedral Microcompartments That Facilitate CO2 Fixation in Cyanobacteria and Some Proteobacteria (207 citations)
  • The cyanobacterial CCM as a source of genes for improving photosynthetic CO2 fixation in crop species (128 citations)
  • Artificial remodelling of alternative electron flow by flavodiiron proteins in Arabidopsis. (109 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Enzyme
  • Gene
  • Photosynthesis

His primary areas of investigation include Photosynthesis, RuBisCO, Biochemistry, Carboxysome and Cyanobacteria. His study looks at the relationship between Photosynthesis and topics such as Chloroplast, which overlap with Botany. His work on Biochemistry is being expanded to include thematically relevant topics such as Synechococcus.

His Synechococcus research focuses on subjects like Mutant, which are linked to Biophysics. In most of his Cyanobacteria studies, his work intersects topics such as Bacterial microcompartment. His Pyruvate carboxylase study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Oxygenase, Carbonic anhydrase, Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana tabacum.

Best Publications

  • Photoprotection in plants: a new light on photosystem II damage

    Shunichi Takahashi;Murray R. Badger

  • The Role of Carbonic Anhydrase in Photosynthesis

    Murray R. Badger;G. Dean Price

  • CO2 concentrating mechanisms in cyanobacteria: molecular components, their diversity and evolution

    Murray R. Badger;G. Dean Price

  • Advances in understanding the cyanobacterial CO2-concentrating-mechanism (CCM): functional components, Ci transporters, diversity, genetic regulation and prospects for engineering into plants

    G. Dean Price;Murray R. Badger;Fiona J. Woodger;Ben M. Long

  • THE DIVERSITY AND COEVOLUTION OF RUBISCO, PLASTIDS, PYRENOIDS, AND CHLOROPLAST-BASED CO2-CONCENTRATING MECHANISMS IN ALGAE

    Murray R Badger;T John Andrews;S M Whitney;Martha Ludwig

  • Apoplastic Synthesis of Nitric Oxide by Plant Tissues

    Paul C. Bethke;Murray R. Badger;Russell L. Jones

  • Internal Inorganic Carbon Pool of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: EVIDENCE FOR A CARBON DIOXIDE-CONCENTRATING MECHANISM.

    Murray R. Badger;Aaron Kaplan;Joseph A. Berry

  • Electron flow to oxygen in higher plants and algae: rates and control of direct photoreduction (Mehler reaction) and rubisco oxygenase.

    Murray R. Badger;Susanne von Caemmerer;Sari Ruuska;Hiromi Nakano

  • Multiple Rubisco forms in proteobacteria: their functional significance in relation to CO2 acquisition by the CBB cycle

    Murray Ronald Badger;Emily Jane Bek

  • Functions, Compositions, and Evolution of the Two Types of Carboxysomes: Polyhedral Microcompartments That Facilitate CO2 Fixation in Cyanobacteria and Some Proteobacteria

    Benjamin Rae;Benedict Long;Murray Badger;Graeme Price

  • Photosynthesis and the intracellular inorganic carbon pool in the bluegreen alga Anabaena variabilis: Response to external CO2 concentration.

    Aaron Kaplan;Murray R. Badger;Joseph A. Berry

  • The environmental plasticity and ecological genomics of the cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism

    Murray R. Badger;G. Dean Price;Ben M. Long;Fiona J. Woodger

  • Evolution and diversity of CO2 concentrating mechanisms in cyanobacteria

    Murray R Badger;David Hanson;G Dean Price

  • Identification of a SulP-type bicarbonate transporter in marine cyanobacteria

    G. Dean Price;Fiona J. Woodger;Murray R. Badger;Susan M. Howitt

  • Expression of Human Carbonic Anhydrase in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC7942 Creates a High CO2-Requiring Phenotype Evidence for a Central Role for Carboxysomes in the CO2 Concentrating Mechanism

    G. D. Price;M. R. Badger

  • The CO2concentrating mechanism in cyanobactiria and microalgae

    Murray R. Badger;G. Dean Price

  • How Does Cyclic Electron Flow Alleviate Photoinhibition in Arabidopsis

    Shunichi Takahashi;Sara E. Milward;Da-Yong Fan;Wah Soon Chow

  • A rapid, non-invasive procedure for quantitative assessment of drought survival using chlorophyll fluorescence.

    Nick S Woo;Murray R Badger;Barry J Pogson

  • Photosynthetic Oxygen Exchange

    Murray Ronald Badger

  • Detection of one slowly exchanging substrate water molecule in the S3 state of photosystem II.

    Johannes Messinger;Murray Badger;Tom Wydrzynski

  • The CO2 concentrating mechanism in cyanobacteria and microalgae

    Murray R. Badger;G. Dean Price

  • Too many photons: photorespiration, photoinhibition and photooxidation

    Barry Osmond;Murray Badger;Kate Maxwell;Olle Björkman

  • The cyanobacterial CCM as a source of genes for improving photosynthetic CO2 fixation in crop species

    G. Dean Price;Jasper J.L. Pengelly;Britta Forster;Jiahui Du

  • The roles of carbonic anhydrases in photosynthetic CO(2) concentrating mechanisms.

    Murray Badger

  • Variations in Kinetic Properties of Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate Carboxylases among Plants.

    Hock-Hin Yeoh;Murray R. Badger;Leslie Watson

  • Production and diffusion of chloroplastic H2O2 and its implication to signalling

    Maria M. Mubarakshina;Maria M. Mubarakshina;Boris N. Ivanov;Ilya A. Naydov;Warwick Hillier

Frequent Co-Authors

G. Dean Price
G. Dean Price Australian National University
Susanne von Caemmerer
Susanne von Caemmerer Australian National University
Shunichi Takahashi
Shunichi Takahashi University of the Ryukyus
Robert T. Furbank
Robert T. Furbank Australian National University
Wah Soon Chow
Wah Soon Chow Australian National University
Asaph B. Cousins
Asaph B. Cousins Washington State University
T. John Andrews
T. John Andrews Australian National University
Spencer M. Whitney
Spencer M. Whitney Australian National University
John R. Evans
John R. Evans Australian National University
A. Harvey Millar
A. Harvey Millar University of Western Australia

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