Dr John Ferguson
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Qualifications
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PhD Biological Sciences University of Essex,
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MSc Plant Genetics University of East Anglia,
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BSc Ecology University of East Anglia,
Appointments
University of Essex
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Lecturer, School of Life Sciences, University of Essex (14/7/2022 - present)
Other academic
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Visiting Scholar, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1/7/2016 - 1/7/2019)
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Research Fellow, Future Food Beacon, University of Nottingham (1/7/2019 - 1/1/2021)
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge (1/1/2021 - 14/7/2022)
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Visiting Researcher, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge (14/7/2022 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
High-throughput phenotyping
Photosynthesis and respiration
Field crops research
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Issues in Biomolecular Science (BS304)
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Research Project in Life Sciences (BS832)
Publications
Publications (1)
Ferguson, JN., Jithesh, T., Lawson, T. and Kromdijk, J., Leaf excision has minimal impact on photosynthetic parameters across crop functional types
Journal articles (14)
Gojon, A., Nussaume, L., Luu, DT., Murchie, EH., Baekelandt, A., Rodrigues Saltenis, VL., Cohan, J., Desnos, T., Inzé, D., Ferguson, JN., Guiderdonni, E., Krapp, A., Klein Lankhorst, R., Maurel, C., Rouached, H., Parry, MAJ., Pribil, M., Scharff, LB. and Nacry, P., (2023). Approaches and determinants to sustainably improve crop production. Food and Energy Security. 12 (1)
Cowling, SB., Treeintong, P., Ferguson, J., Soltani, H., Swarup, R., Mayes, S. and Murchie, EH., (2022). Out of Africa: characterizing the natural variation in dynamic photosynthetic traits in a diverse population of African rice (Oryza glaberrima).. Journal of Experimental Botany. 73 (10), 3283-3298
Li, S., Moller, CA., Mitchell, NG., Martin, DG., Sacks, EJ., Saikia, S., Labonte, NR., Baldwin, BS., Morrison, JI., Ferguson, JN., Leakey, ADB. and Ainsworth, EA., (2022). The leaf economics spectrum of triploid and tetraploid C₄ grass Miscanthus x giganteus.. Plant, Cell and Environment. 45 (12), 3462-3475
Ferguson, JN., Tidy, AC., Murchie, EH. and Wilson, ZA., (2021). The potential of resilient carbon dynamics for stabilizing crop reproductive development and productivity during heat stress. Plant, Cell & Environment. 44 (7), 2066-2089
Ferguson, JN., Fernandes, SB., Monier, B., Miller, ND., Allen, D., Dmitrieva, A., Schmuker, P., Lozano, R., Valluru, R., Buckler, ES., Gore, MA., Brown, PJ., Spalding, EP. and Leakey, ADB., (2021). Machine learning-enabled phenotyping for GWAS and TWAS of WUE traits in 869 field-grown sorghum accessions. Plant Physiology. 187 (3), 1481-1500
Ferguson, JN., McAusland, L., Smith, KE., Price, AH., Wilson, ZA. and Murchie, EH., (2020). Rapid temperature responses of photosystem II efficiency forecast genotypic variation in rice vegetative heat tolerance. The Plant Journal. 104 (3), 839-855
Ferguson, JN., Meyer, RC., Edwards, KD., Humphry, M., Brendel, O. and Bechtold, U., (2019). Accelerated flowering time reduces lifetime water use without penalizing reproductive performance in Arabidopsis. Plant, Cell and Environment. 42 (6), 1847-1867
Leakey, ADB., Ferguson, JN., Pignon, CP., Wu, A., Jin, Z., Hammer, GL. and Lobell, DB., (2019). Water Use Efficiency as a Constraint and Target for Improving the Resilience and Productivity of C3 and C4 Crops. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 70 (1), 781-808
Ferguson, JN., (2019). Climate change and abiotic stress mechanisms in plants. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences. 3 (2), 165-181
Valluru, R., Gazave, EE., Fernandes, SB., Ferguson, JN., Lozano, R., Hirannaiah, P., Zuo, T., Brown, PJ., Leakey, ADB., Gore, MA., Buckler, ES. and Bandillo, N., (2019). Deleterious Mutation Burden and Its Association with Complex Traits in Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). Genetics. 211 (3), 1075-1087
Bechtold, U., Ferguson, JN. and Mullineaux, PM., (2018). To defend or to grow: Lessons from Arabidopsis C24. Journal of Experimental Botany. 69 (11), 2809-2821
Ferguson, JN., Humphry, M., Lawson, T., Brendel, O. and Bechtold, U., (2018). Natural variation of life-history traits, water use, and drought responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Direct. 2 (1), e00035-
Dawson, AM., Ferguson, JN., Gardiner, M., Green, P., Hubbard, A. and Moscou, MJ., (2016). Isolation and fine mapping of Rps6: an intermediate host resistance gene in barley to wheat stripe rust. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 129 (4), 831-843
Dawson, AM., Ferguson, JN., Gardiner, M., Green, P., Hubbard, A. and Moscou, MJ., (2016). Erratum to: Isolation and fine mapping of Rps6: an intermediate host resistance gene in barley to wheat stripe rust. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 129 (4), 861-861
Thesis dissertation (1)
Ferguson, JN., (2017). Natural variation of water use and water productivity in Arabidopsis thaliana