Yusuke Onoda 

PhD (2005, Tohoku University, Japan)
Post-doc (2005-2007, Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 
Post-doc (2007-2010, ARC-NZ Research Network for Vegetation Function)
 
Department of Biological Sciences (Room E8C 274), 
Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia. 
Email: yonoda(at)bio.mq.edu.au 
Phone: +61(2) 9850 6270 
Fax: +61(2) 9850 8228

Background

I am interested in how plants adjust physiological and morphological traits to different environments. During my PhD, I studied plant acclimation (photosynthesis and resource allocation) to different growth conditions (CO2, temperature etc), and also I explored evolutionary response to high CO2 environment with natural CO2 springs (supervised by Tadaki Hirose and Kouki Hikosaka, Tohoku University). After my PhD, I got a JSPS grant and moved to Utrecht University. At Utrecht, I studied leaf mechanics and physiology with Niels Anten and Feike Schieving. Also I was given a great opportunity to collaborate with people from different institutes (Nijmegen Univeristy and NIOO). Recently I am involved in ARC-NZ Research Network for Vegetation Function (Mark Westoby and Ian Wright) and working for working group (leaf mechanics).

Publications (peer reviewed)

1. Onoda Y, Hikosaka K, Hirose T (2004) Nitrogen allocation to cell walls decreases photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency. Functional Ecology 18, 419-425

2.  Anten NPR, Hirose T, Onoda Y, Kinugasa T, Kim HY, Okada M, Kobayashi K (2004) Elevated CO 2 and nitrogen availability have interactive effects on canopy carbon gain in rice. New Phytologist 161, 459-472

3. Onoda Y, Hikosaka K, Hirose T (2005a) Seasonal change in the balance between capacities of RuBP carboxylation and RuBP regeneration affects CO 2 response of photosynthesis in Polygonum cuspidatum. Journal of Experimental Botany 56, 755-763

4. Hikosaka K, Onoda Y, Kinugasa K, Anten NPR, Nagashima H, Hirose T (2005) Plant responses to elevated CO 2 at different scales: leaves, whole plants, canopies, and populations. Ecological Research 20, 243-253

5. Yasumura Y, Onoda Y, Hikosaka K, Hirose T (2005) Nitrogen resorption from leaves with different growth irradiance in three deciduous woody species. Plant Ecology, 178: 29-37

6. Onoda Y, Hikosaka K, Hirose T (2005b) The balance between RuBP carboxylation and RuBP regeneration: a mechanism underlying the interspecific variation in acclimation of photosynthesis to seasonal change in temperature. Functional Plant Biology 32: 903-910

7. Onoda Y, Hikosaka K, Hirose T. (2005c) Natural CO 2 springs in Japan: A case study of vegetation dynamics. Phyton 45, 389-394

8. Hikosaka K, Ishikawa K, Borjigidai A, Muller O, Onoda Y (2006) Temperature acclimation of photosynthesis: mechanisms involved in the changes in temperature dependence of photosynthetic rates. Journal of Experimental Botany, 57: 291-302.

9. Onoda Y, Hirose T, Hikosaka K (2007) Effect of elevated CO 2 levels on leaf starch, nitrogen and photosynthesis of plants growing at three natural CO 2 springs in Japan. Ecological Research 22, 475-484

10. Ishikawa K, Onoda Y, Hikosaka K (2007) Intraspecific variation in temperature dependence of gas exchange characteristics of Plantago asiatica ecotypes from different temperature regimes. New Phytologist 176, 356-364.

11. Onoda Y, Schieving F, Anten NPR (2008) Effects of light and nutrient availability on leaf mechanical properties: a conceptual approach. Annals of Botany 101: 727-736.

12. Gómez S, Onoda Y, Ossipov V, Stuefer JF. (2008) Systemic induced resistance: a risk-spreading strategy in clonal plant networks? New Phytologist (in press).

Last updated 6 May 2008