Current
position
Distinguished Professor,
FAA, FRS
Research interests
Integration of photosynthesis
and growth with nitrogen and water use of plants
Stomatal physiology
Isotopic composition of plants
Global change science
Recent Publications
** Most Significant Publications
Hobbins MT, Dai A, Roderick ML, and Farquhar GD (2008). Revisiting the parameterization of potential evaporation as a driver of long-term water balance trends. Geophysical Research Letters
35, L12403, doi:10.1029/2008GL033840.
PDF
Gessler A, Tcherkez G, Peuke AD, Ghashghaie J, Farquhar GD (2008). Experimental evidence for diel variations of the carbon isotope composition in leaf, stem and phloem sap organic matter in Ricinus communis. Plant, Cell and Environment 31, 941-953. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01806.x PDF
Tcherkez G and Farquhar GD (2008). On the effect of heavy water (D2O) on carbon isotope fractionation in photosynthesis Functional Plant Biology (in press)
Stuart-Williams H, Wong S C, Farquhar GD, Keitel C and Clayton S (2008)
An innovative molybdenum column liner for oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope analysis by pyrolysis. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 22, 1117-1126 doi: 10.1002/rcm.3474 PDF
Lloyd Jon and Farquhar GD. Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2]on the physiology of tropical forest trees. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.0032 PDF
Ripullone F, Matsuo N, Stuart-Williams H, Wong SC, Borghetti M, Tani M and Farquhar GD. Environmental effects on oxygen isotope enrichment of leaf water in cotton leaves. Plant Physiology, 146: 729-736 PLANTPHYSIOL/2007/105643 DOI:10.1104/pp.107.105643 PDF
G.J. Rebetzke, A.G. Condon, G.D. Farquhar, R. Appels, and R.A. Richards. Quantitative trait loci for carbon isotope discrimination are repeatable across environments and wheat mapping populations. Theoretical and Applied Genetics (in press)
McNevin et al. (2007) Differences in carbon isotope discrimination of three variant Rubiscos* reflect differences in their catalytic mechanism. J Biol Chem Vol 282, 49 36068-36076. PDF
Tcherkez G and Farquhar GD. (2007) On the 16O/18O isotope effect associated with photosynthetic O2 production. Functional Plant Biology 39, 1049-1052. PDF
Condon AG, Reynolds MP, Rebetzke GJ, Van Ginkel M, Richards RR and Farquhar GD. (2007) Using stomatal aperture-related traits to select for high yield potential in bread wheat. In Developments in Plant Breeding 11 - Wheat Production in Stressed Environments. HT Buck, JE Nisi and N Salomón (eds). Springer Netherlands. Volume 12, pp 617-624. PDF
Roderick ML, Rotstayn LD, Farquhar GD and Hobbins MT. (2007) On the attribution of changing pan evaporation. Geophysical Research Letters VOL. 34, L17403, doi:10.1029/2007GL031166 PDF
Gifford RM, Roderick M and Farquhar GD. (2007) Evaporative demand: Does it increase with global warming? Global Change Newsletter 69, 21-23 PDF
Sharkey TD, Bernacchi CJ, Farquhar GD and Singaas EL (2007) Fitting photosynthetic carbon dioxide response curves for C3 leaves. Plant, Cell and Environment 30, 1035-1040. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01710.x PDF
Paltridge GW, Farquhar GD and Cuntz M. (2007) Maximum entropy production, cloud feedback and climate change. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L14708, doi:10.1029/2007GL029925. PDF
Cuntz M, Ogée J, Farquhar GD, Peylin P and Cernusak LA (2007) Modelling advection and diffusion of water isotopologues in leaves. Plant, Cell and Environment 30, 892-909. PDF
Gessler A, Keitel C, Kodama N, Weston C, Winters AJ, Keith H, Grice K, Leuning R, Farquhar GD δ13C of organic matter transported from the leaves to the roots in Eucalyptus delegatensis - short-term variations and relation to respired CO2. Functional Plant Biology 34,692-706. PDF
I. G. Tremmel , E. Weis , and G. D. Farquhar (2007) Macromolecular crowding and its influence on possible reaction mechanisms in photosynthetic electron flow
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1767, 353-361. PDF
Krull E, Bray S, Harms B, Baxter N, Bol R, Farquhar G (2007) Development of a stable isotope index to assess decadal-scale vegetation change and application to woodlands of the Burdekin catchment, Australia. Global Change Biology 13, 1-14. PDF
Stork NE, Balston J, Farquhar GD, Franks PJ, Holtum JAM and Liddell MJ (2007)
Commentary. Tropical rainforest canopies and climate change Austral Ecology 32, 80–86. PDF
Beer C, Reichstein M, Ciais P, Farquhar GD, and Papale D (2007) Mean annual GPP of Europe derived from its water balance. Geophysical
Research Letters VOL. 34, L05401, doi:10.1029/2006GL029006 PDF
Thompson AJ, Andrews J, Mulholland BJ, McKee JMT, Hilton HW, Horridge JS, Farquhar GD, Smeeton RC, Smillie IRA, Black CR and Taylor IB (2007) Over-production of abscisic acid in Solanum lycopersicum l. increases transpiration efficiency and root hydraulic conductivity and influences leaf expansion. Plant Physiology (in press).
Farquhar GD and Roderick ML (2007) Worldwide changes in evaporative demand. Proceedings of the Workshop "Water and the Environment", celebrated at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, November 2005, Proceedings of the PAS, 2007 (in press).
Gessler A, Peuke AD, Keitel C, Farquhar GD (2007) Oxygen isotope enrichment of organic matter in Ricinus communis during the diel course and as affected by assimilate transport. New Phytologist doi: 10.1111/j.14698137.2007.02007.x. PDF
Lloyd J, Bird MI, Vellen L, Miranda AC, Veenendaal EM, Djagbletey G, Miranda HS, Cook G, Farquhar GD (2007) Contributions of woody and herbaceous vegetation to tropical savanna ecosystem productivity: A quasi-global estimate. Tree Physiology (in press).
Barbour MM, Farquhar GD, Hanson DT, Bickford CP, Powers H, McDowell NG (2007). A new measurement technique reveals temporal variation in δ18O of leaf-respired CO2. Plant, Cell and Environment 30, 456-468. PDF
Farquhar GD, Cernusak LA, Barnes B (2007) Heavy water fractionation during transpiration. Plant Physiology 143, 11–18. PDF
Franks PJ and Farquhar GD (2006) The mechanical diversity of stomata and its significance in gas exchange control. Plant Physiology 143, 77-87. PDF
Rotstayn LD. Cai W, Dix MR, Farquhar GD, Feng Y, Ginoux P, Herzog M, Ito A, Penner JE, Roderick ML, and Wang M (2006) Have Australian Rainfall and Cloudiness Increased Due to the Remote Effects of Asian Anthropogenic Aerosols? Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 112, DP9202, doi:10.1029/2006JD007712,2007 PDF
McNevin DB, Badger MMR, Kane HJ, and Farquhar GD (2006). Measurement of (carbon) kinetic isotope effect by Rayleigh fractionation using membrane inlet mass spectrometry for CO2 consuming reactions. Functional Plant Biology 33, 1115–1128. PDF
Marenco RA, Siebke K, Farquhar GD, Ball MC (2006) Hydraulically based stomatal oscillations and stomatal patchiness in Gossypium hirsutum. Functional Plant Biology 33, 1103–1113. PDF
McNevin DB, von Caemmerer S and Farquhar GD (2006). Determining RuBisCO activation kinetics and other rate and equilibrium constants by simultaneous multiple non-linear regression of a kinetic model. Journal of Experimental Botany 57 (14): 3883-3900 PDF
Rotstayn LD, Roderick ML and Farquhar GD (2006). A simple pan-evaporation model for analysis of climate simulations: Evaluation over Australia. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L17715, doi: 10.1029/2006GL027114 PDF
Kirschbaum
MUF, Bruhn D, Etheridge DM, Evans JR, Farquhar GD, Gifford RM,
Paul KI and Winters AJ (2006). A comment on the quantitative significance
of aerobic methane released by plants. Functional Plant
Biology 33, 521-530 PDF
**
Tcherkez G, Farquhar GD and Andrews TJ (2006). Despite slow catalysis
and confused substrate specificity, all ribulose bisphosphate
carboxylases may be nearly perfectly optimized. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 103 (15)
7246-7241 PDF
see also Commentaries in PNAS and Nature:
Gutteridge S and Pierce J (2006) A unified theory for the basis of the limitations of the primary reaction of photosynthetic CO2 fixation: Was Dr. Pangloss right? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 103 (19) 7203-7204 PDF
Griffiths, H (2006) Designs on Rubisco. Nature 441 940-941 PDF
Tcherkez
G and Farquhar GD (2006). Isotopic fractionation by plant nitrate
reductase, twenty years later. Functional Plant Biology
33: 531-537 PDF
Rebetzke
GJ, Richards RA, Condon AG and Faquhar GD (2006) Inheritance of
carbon isotope discrimination in bread wheat ( Triticum
aestivum L.) Euphytica doi: 10.1007/S10681-006-9097-4
PDF
Barbour
MM, Cernusak LA, Whitehead D, Griffin KL, Turnbull MH, Tissue
DT and Farquhar GD (2005). Nocturnal stomatal conductance and
implications for modeling d 13 C of leaf-respired CO 2 in temperate
tree species. Functional Plant Biology 32: 1107-1121
PDF
Powles
JE, Buckley TN , Nicotra AB and Farquhar GD (2006). Dynamics of
stomatal water relations following leaf excision. Plant,
Cell and Environment 29: 981-992 PDF
Roderick,
ML and Farquhar GD (2005) Changes in New Zealand Pan Evaporation
since the 1970s. International Journal of Climatology
25: 2031-2039 . PDF
Berry
, S.L., Farquhar, G. D. and Roderick, M. L. (2005) Co-evolution
of climate, vegetation, soil and air. In: Encyclopedia of Hydrological
Sciences Vol 1: 177-192.
Condon
AG, Farquhar GD, Rebetzke GJ, Richards RA (2005) The application
of carbon isotope discrimination in cereal improvement for water-limited
environments. In Drought Tolerance in Cereals. Ed J-M Ribaut.
Haworth Press, Binghamton NY Chap 6 pp 171-219 PDF
**
Masle J, Gilmore S R and Farquhar GD (2005) The ERECTA gene regulates
plant transpiration efficiency in Arabidopsis. Nature
436, 866-870 doi:
10.1038/nature03835
PDF
Tcherkez G and Farquhar
GD (2005) Carbon isotope effect predictions for enzymes involved
in the primary carbon metabolism of plant leaves. Functional
Plant Biology 32 (4) 277-291 PDF
Farquhar GD and Cernusak LA (2005)
On the isotopic composition of leaf water in the non-steady state.
Functional Plant Biology 32 (4) 293-303
PDF
Tremmel IG, Weiss E
and Farquhar GD (2005) The influence of protein-protein interactions
on the organisation of proteins within thylakoid membranes. Biophysical
Journal 88, 2650–2660. PDF
Guehl J-M, Bonal D,
Ferhi A, Barigah TS, Farquhar GD, Granier A (2004) Community-level
diversity of carbon-water relations in rainforest trees. In
Ecology and Management of a Neotropical Rainforest (Lessons
drawn for Paracou, a long-term experimental research site in French
Guiana ). S Gourlet-Fleury, J-M Guehl and O Laroussinie (eds).
Elsevier SAS. Chapter 2, pp 75–94. PDF
Cernusak LA, Farquhar
GD, Pate JS (2004) Environmental and physiological controls over
oxygen and carbon isotope composition of Tasmanian blue gum, Eucalyptus
globulus. Tree Physiology 25 129-146 PDF
Barbour MM, Hunt JE,
Dungan RJ, Turnbull MH, Brailsford GW, Farquhar GD, Whitehead
D (2004) Variation in the degree of coupling between d 13 C of
phloem sap and ecosystem respiration in two mature Nothofagus
forests. New Phytologist 497-512
PDF
Tcherkez G, Farquhar
GD, Badeck F and Ghashghaie J (2004) Theoretical considerations
about carbon isotope distribution in glucose of C 3 plants. Functional
Plant Biology 31: 857-877 . PDF
Buckley TN and Farquhar
GD (2004) A new analytical model for whole-leaf potential electron
transport rate. Plant, Cell and Environment 27:12
1487-1502. PDF
Cernusak LA, Farquhar
GD, Wong SC and Stuart-Williams HLeQ (2004) Measurement and interpretation
of the oxygen isotope composition of carbon dioxide respired by
leaves in the dark. Plant Physiology 136:
3350–3363. PDF
Roderick ML and Farquhar GD (2004)
Changes in Australian Pan Evaporation from 1970 to 2002. International
Journal of Climatology 24(9) 1077-1090.
PDF
June T, Evans JR and
Farquhar GD (2004) A simple new equation for the reversible temperature
dependence of photosynthetic electron transport; a study on soybean
leaf. Functional Plant Biology 31, 275 - 83.
PDF
Cernusak LA, Pate JS,
Farquhar GD (2004) Oxygen and carbon isotope composition of parasitic
plants and their hosts on southwestern Australia. Oecologia 27
(1) 107-121 PDF
Barnes B, Farquhar GD
and Gan KS (2004) Modeling the isotope enrichment of leaf water.
Journal of Mathematical Biology 48:
672-702. PDF
Farquhar GD and Roderick ML (2003).
Pinatubo, diffuse light, and the carbon cycle. Science
299: 5615. PDF
**Roderick
ML and Farquhar GD (2002) The cause of decreased pan evaporation
over the last 50 years. Science 298: 1410-1411.
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