Professor
John Patrick
FAA
John Patrick is internationally renowned for his theoretical and experimental advances in the regulation of nutrient transport and partitioning in plants. He has developed a novel theoretical framework that identifies control points for the regulation of nutrient transport through, and unloading from, the plant vascular network to fuel organ development. Patrick’s innovative experimental approaches have shown how metabolic demand for nutrients is coordinated with vascular transport by phytohormones, cell turgor and nutrient pool sizes. These discoveries have laid a conceptual framework to further elucidate nutrient transport and partitioning mechanisms and to identify novel targets for improving crop yield.
Fields of research
31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES-
3108
PLANT BIOLOGY
- 310803 Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
- 310804 Plant Developmental and Reproductive Biology
- 310806 Plant Physiology
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Expertise type
- Membrane Transport
- Plant Cell Walls
- Seed Biology
- Crop Yields
- Cell Wall Labyrinth Assembly
- Fruit Filling
- Signalling Pathways
- Fruit Set
- Phloem Biology
- Seed Filling
- Phloem Unloading
- Seed Set
- Transfer Cell Biology
- Biology
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