Dr Britta Foerster
PhD 2001, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Visiting Fellow
ANU College of Science
Areas of expertise
- Plant Physiology 060705
- Crop And Pasture Biochemistry And Physiology 070303
- Cell Metabolism 060104
- Plant Cell And Molecular Biology 060702
Research interests
CO2 concentrating mechanisms in cyanobacteria and aquatic algae
Molecular physiology approaches to increasing photosynthetic efficiency and chloroplast function for yield improvement of C3 crops
Molecular mechanisms of photosynthesis and photoprotection using the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as model system
Photoacclimation to light and shade environments in relation to roles of the xanthophyll cycles in avocado trees
Publications
- Nguyen, N, Pulsford, S, Foerster, B et al. 2024, 'A carboxysome-based CO2 concentrating mechanism for C3crop chloroplasts: advances and the road ahead', The Plant Journal.
- Foerster, B, Rourke, L, Weerasooriya, H et al. 2023, 'The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast envelope protein LCIA transports bicarbonate in planta', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 74, no. 12, pp. 3651-3666.
- Wu, A, Brider, J, Busch, F et al. 2022, 'A cross-scale analysis to understand and quantify the effects of photosynthetic enhancement on crop growth and yield across environments', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 23-44.
- Foerster, B 2021, 'Photosynthesis: Oxygen overload', eLife, vol. 10, p. 3.
- Rottet, S, Foerster, B, Hee, W et al. 2021, 'Engineered Accumulation of Bicarbonate in Plant Chloroplasts: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns', Frontiers in Plant Science, vol. 12.
- Long, B, Foerster, B, Pulsford, S et al. 2021, 'Rubisco proton production can drive the elevation of CO2 within condensates and carboxysomes', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 118, no. 18.
- Price, G, Long, B & Foerster, B 2019, 'DABs accumulate bicarbonate', Nature Microbiology, vol. 4, no. 12, pp. 2029-2030.
- Kaczmarski, J, Hong, N, Mukherjee, B et al. 2019, 'Structural Basis for the Allosteric Regulation of the SbtA Bicarbonate Transporter by the P-II-like Protein, SbtB, from Cyanobium sp. PCC7001', Biochemistry, vol. 58, no. 50, pp. 5030-5039.
- Rae, B, Long, B, Foerster, B et al. 2017, 'Progress and challenges of engineering a biophysical carbon dioxide-concentrating mechanism into higher plants', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 68, no. 14, pp. 3717-3737.
- Machingura, M, Bajsa-Hirschel, J, Laborde, S et al. 2017, 'Identification and characterization of a solute carrier, CIA8,involved in inorganic carbon acclimation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 68, no. 14, pp. 3879-3890.
- Long, B, Rae, B, Rolland, V et al. 2016, 'Cyanobacterial CO2-concentrating mechanism components: function and prospects for plant metabolic engineering', Current Opinion in Plant Biology, vol. 31, pp. 1-8.
- Du, J, Foerster, B, Rourke, L et al. 2014, 'Characterisation of cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters in E. Coli shows that SBTA homologs are functional in this heterologous expression system', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 9, no. 12, pp. e115905-e115905.
- Pengelly, J, Forster, B, von Caemmerer, S, Badger M, Price GD & Whitney SM 2014, 'Transplastomic integration of a cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter into tobacco chloroplasts', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 3071-3080.
- Shirao, M, Kuroki, S, Kaneko, K et al 2013, 'Gymnosperms have increased capacity for electron leakage to oxygen (Mehler and PTOX reactions) in photosynthesis compared with angiosperms', Plant and Cell Physiology, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1152-1163.
- Rae, B, Long, B, Whitehead, L et al. 2013, 'Cyanobacterial Carboxysomes: Microcompartments that Facilitate CO2 Fixation', Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol. 23, no. 4-5, pp. 300-307.
- Jia, H, Forster, B, Chow, W et al 2013, 'Decreased Photochemical Efficiency of Photosystem II following Sunlight Exposure of Shade-Grown Leaves of Avocado: Because of, or in Spite of, Two Kinetically Distinct Xanthophyll Cycles?', Plant Physiology, vol. 161, no. 2, pp. 836-852.
- Price, G, Pengelly, J, Forster, B, von Caemmerer, S, Badger, MR, Price, GD and Whitney, SM. 2013, 'The cyanobacterial CCM as a source of genes for improving photosynthetic CO2 fixation in crop species', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 753-768.
- Matsubara, S, Foerster, B, Waterman, M et al. 2012, 'From ecophysiology to phenomics: some implications of photoprotection and shade-sun acclimation in situ for dynamics of thylakoids in vitro', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, vol. 367, no. 1608, pp. 3503-3514.
- Nichol, CJ, Pieruschka, R, Takayama, K et al 2012, 'Canopy conundrums: building on the Biosphere 2 experience to scale measurements of inner and outer canopy photoprotection from the leaf to the landscape', Functional Plant Biology 39, 1-24.
- Rae, B, Foerster, B, Badger, M et al. 2011, 'The CO2-concentrating mechanism of Synechococcus WH5701 is composed of native and horizontally-acquired components', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 109, no. 1-3, pp. 59-72.
- Forster, B & Osmond, CB, Pogson BJ 2011, 'Lutein from deepoxidation of lutein epoxide replaces zeaxanthin to sustain an enhanced capacity for nonphotochemical chlorophyll fluorescence quenching in avocado shade leaves in the dark', Plant Physiology, 156, no. 1, pp. 393-403.
- Forster, B, Pogson, BJ, Osmond CB 2009, 'De Novo Synthesis and Degradation of Lx and V Cycle Pigments during Shade and Sun Acclimation in Avocado Leaves', Plant Physiology, vol. 149, pp. 1179-1195.
- Pogson, B, Woo, N, Foerster, B et al 2008, 'Plastid signalling to the nucleus and beyond', Trends in Plant Science, vol. 13, no. 11, pp. 602-609.
- Pogson, B, Forster, B & Osmond, CB 2008, 'Dynamics of the truncated lutein epoxide cycle in avocado (Persea Americana L.): implications for efficiency of light harvesting', in Allen, J. F., Gantt, E., Golbeck, J. H., Osmond, B. (ed.), Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun: 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis 2007, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 1031-1034.
- Foerster, B, Mathesius, U & Pogson, B 2006, 'Comparative proteomics of high light stress in the model alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii', Proteomics, vol. 6, no. 15, pp. 4309-4320.
- Osmond, CB & Forster, B 2006, 'Photoinhibition: Then and Now', in Barbara Demmig-Adams, William Adams & Autar Mattoo (ed.), Photoprotection, Photoinhibition, Gene Regulation, and Environment, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 11-22.
- Hendrickson, L, Foerster, B, Pogson, B et al. 2005, 'A simple chlorophyll fluorescence parameter the correlates with the rate coefficient of photoinactivation of Photosystem II', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 84, pp. 43-49.
- Forster, B, Osmond, CB & Pogson, BJ 2005, 'Improved survival of very high light and oxidative stress is conferred by spontaneous gain-of-function mutations in Chlamydomonas', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, vol. 1709, pp. 45-57.
- Foerster, B & Pogson, B 2004, 'Carotenoids in Photosynthesis', in RM Goodman (ed.), Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, pp. 245-249pp.
- Hendrickson, L, Foerster, B, Furbank, R et al 2004, 'Processes contributing to photoprotection of grapevine leaves illuminated at low temperature', Physiologia Plantarum, vol. 121, no. 2, pp. 272-281.
- Matsubara, S, Morosinotto, T, Bassi, R et al 2003, 'Occurrence of the lutein-epoxide cycle in mistletoes of the Loranthaceae and Viscaceae', Planta, vol. 217, pp. 868-879.
- Foerster, B, Osmond, C & Boynton, J 2001, 'Very high light resistant mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Responses of Photosystem II, nonphotochemical quenching and xanthophyll pigments to light and CO2', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 67, pp. 5-15.
