Areas of expertise

• Plant Physiology 060705
• Biochemistry And Cell Biology 0601

Publications

• Scafaro, A, Fan, Y, Posch, B et al. 2021, 'Responses of leaf respiration to heatwaves', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 2090-2101.
• O'Leary, B, Scafaro, A, Fenske, R et al. 2020, 'Rubisco lysine acetylation occurs at very low stoichiometry in mature Arabidopsis leaves: implications for regulation of enzyme function', Biochemical Journal, vol. 477, no. 19, pp. 3885-3896.
• Ahmad Rashid, F, Scafaro, A, Asao, S et al. 2020, 'Diel- and temperature-driven variation of leaf dark respiration rates and metabolite levels in rice', New Phytologist, vol. 228, pp. 56-69.
• Ahmad Rashid, F, Crisp, P, Zhang, Y et al. 2020, 'Molecular and physiological responses during thermal acclimation of leaf photosynthesis and respiration in rice', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 594-610.
• Scafaro, A, Bautsoens, N, den Boer, B et al 2019, 'A Conserved Sequence from Heat-Adapted Species Improves Rubisco Activase Thermostability in Wheat', Plant Physiology, vol. 181, no. 1, pp. 43-54.
• Scafaro, A, Vleesschauwer, D, Bautsoens, N et al. 2019, 'A single point mutation in the C-terminal extension of wheat Rubisco activase dramatically reduces ADP inhibition via enhanced ATP binding affinity', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 294, no. 47, pp. 17931-17940.
• Abdul Bahar, N, Hayes, L, Scafaro, A et al 2018, 'Mesophyll conductance does not contribute to greater photosynthetic rate per unit nitrogen in temperate compared with tropical evergreen wet-forest tree leaves', New Phytologist, vol. 218, no. 2, pp. 492-505pp.
• Scafaro, A, Atwell, B, Muylaert, S et al 2018, 'A Thermotolerant Variant of Rubisco Activase From a Wild Relative Improves Growth and Seed Yield in Rice Under Heat Stress', Frontiers in Plant Science, vol. 9, no. 1663, pp. 1-11.
• Scafaro, A, Xiang, S, Long, B et al. 2017, 'Strong thermal acclimation of photosynthesis in tropical and temperate wet-forest tree species: the importance of altered Rubisco content', Global Change Biology, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 2783-2800pp.
• Scafaro, A, Alves Negrini, A, O'Leary, B et al. 2017, 'The combination of gas-phase fluorophore technology and automation to enable high-throughput analysis of plant respiration', Plant Methods, vol. 13, no. 16, pp. 16-16.
• Scafaro, A, Galle, A, Van Rie, J et al 2016, 'Heat tolerance in a wild Oryza species is attributed to maintenance of Rubisco activation by a thermally stable Rubisco activase ortholog', New Phytologist, vol. 211, no. 3, pp. 899-911pp.
• Atwell, B, Wang, H & Scafaro, A 2014, 'Could abiotic stress tolerance in wild relatives of rice be used to improve Oryza sativa?', Plant Science, vol. 215, pp. 48-58.
• Neilson, K, Scafaro, A, Chick, J et al 2013, 'The influence of signals from chilled roots on the proteome of shoot tissues in rice seedlings', Proteomics, vol. 13, no. 12-13, pp. 1922-1933.
• Scafaro, A, Yamori, W, Carmo-Silva, A et al 2012, 'Rubisco activity is associated with photosynthetic thermotolerance in a wild rice (Oryza meridionalis)', Physiologia Plantarum, vol. 146, no. 1, pp. 99-109.
• Scafaro, A, von Caemmerer, S, Evans, J et al 2011, 'Temperature response of mesophyll conductance in cultivated and wild Oryza species with contrasting mesophyll cell wall thickness', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 1999-2008.
• Scafaro, A, Haynes, P & Atwell, B 2010, 'Physiological and molecular changes in Oryza meridionalis Ng., a heat-tolerant species of wild rice', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 191-202.

Projects and Grants

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• A step change in modeling leaf respiration-photosynthesis relationships (Secondary Investigator)
• Discovering thermally stable wheat through exploration of leaf respiration in combination with photosystem II capacity and heat tolerance (Secondary Investigator)
• Genotypic variation in wheat photosynthetic acclimation to high temperature and its associated energy cost (Secondary Investigator)