Plasticity of the Calvin-Benson cycle in Arabidopsis in response to changing light and nitrogen availability over a diurnal cycle (B06)

• Subject Area: Plant Physiology
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 512328399

The project will study plasticity in photosynthetic metabolism including the Calvin-Benson cycle (CBC) to nitrogen availability and light intensity as two key resources. The CBC is a key process in photosynthetic carbon fixation and intimately connected to plant central metabolism, yet no comprehensive kinetic models of the CBC are available. Thus, the project will generate a large-scale kinetic model of photosynthetic metabolism in leaves and use accession-specific model simulations to study the genetic basis of plasticity in central photosynthetic metabolism.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1644: Phenotypic plasticity in plants – Mechanisms, constraints and evolution
• Applicant Institution: Universität Potsdam
• Project Head: Dr. Anika Küken