School of Biological Sciences
Washington State University
PO Box 644236
Pullman WA 99164-4236
Tel: +1- 509-335-2539; Fax: 509-335-3184
E-mail: edwardsg@wsu.edu
http://sbs.wsu.edu/faculty/?faculty/10
http://www.sbs.wsu.edu/index.html
Area of expertise: Photosynthesis; mechanism and evolution of carbon assimilation
Co-editor until: Dec. 31, 2010

• Zell MB, Fahnenstich H, Maier A, Saigo M, Voznesenskaya EV, Edwards GE, Andreo C, Schleifenbaum F, Zell C, Drincovich MF, Maurino VG (2010) Analysis of Arabidopsis with highly reduced levels of malate and fumarate sheds light on the role of these organic acids as storage carbon molecules. Plant Physiol. 152, 1251-1262.
• Maricle BR, Koteyeva NK, Voznesenskaya EV, Thomasson JR, Edwards GE (2009) Diversity in leaf anatomy, and stomatal distribution and conductance, between salt marsh and freshwater species in the C(4) genus Spartina (Poaceae). New Phytol. 184, 216-233.
• Park J, Knoblauch M, Okita TW, Edwards GE (2009) Structural changes in the vacuole and cytoskeleton are key to development of the two cytoplasmic domains supporting single-cell C(4) photosynthesis in Bienertia sinuspersici. Planta 229, 369-382.
• Akhani H, Lara MV, Ghasemkhani M, Ziegler H, Edwards GE (2009) Does Bienertia cycloptera with the single-cell system of C(4) photosynthesis exhibit a seasonal pattern of delta (13)C values in nature similar to co-existing C (4) Chenopodiaceae having the dual-cell (Kranz) system? Photosynth. Res. 99, 23-36.
• Lara MV, Offermann S, Smith M, Okita TW, Andreo CS, Edwards GE (2008) Leaf development in the single-cell C4 system in Bienertia sinuspersici: expression of genes and peptide levels for C4 metabolism in relation to chlorenchyma structure under different light conditions. Plant Physiol. 148, 593-610.
• Akhani H, Ghasemkhani M, Chuong SD, Edwards GE (2008) Occurrence and forms of Kranz anatomy in photosynthetic organs and characterization of NAD-ME subtype C4 photosynthesis in Blepharis ciliaris (L.) B. L. Burtt (Acanthaceae). J. Exp. Bot. 59, 1755-1765.
• Voznesenskaya EV, Akhani H, Koteyeva NK, Chuong SD, Roalson EH, Kiirats O, Franceschi VR, Edwards GE (2008) Structural, biochemical, and physiological characterization of photosynthesis in two C4 subspecies of Tecticornia indica and the C3 species Tecticornia pergranulata (Chenopodiaceae). J. Exp. Bot. 59, 1715-1734.
• Voznesenskaya EV, Koteyeva N, Chuong SDX, Ivanova A, Barroca J, Edwards GE (2007) Physiological, anatomical and biochemical characterization of photosynthetic types in genus Cleome (Cleomaceae). Funct. Plant Biol. 34, 247-267.
• Boyd CN, Franceschi VR, Chuong SDX, Akhani H, Kiirats O, Smith M, Edwards GE (2007) Flowers of Bienertia cycloptera and Suaeda aralocaspica (Chenopodiaceae) complete the life cycle performing single-cell C4 photosynthesis. Funct. Plant Biol. 34, 268-281.
• Maricle BR, Lee RW, Hellquist CE, Kiirats O, Edwards GE (2007) Effects of salinity on chorophyll fluorescence and CO2 fixation in C4 estuarine grasses. Photosynthetica 45, 433-440.
• Murphy LR, Barroca J, Franceschi VR, Lee R, Roalson EH, Edwards GE, Ku MSB (2007) Diversity and plasticity of C4 photosynthesis in Eleocharis (Cyperaceae). Funct. Plant Biol. 34, 571-580.
• Ivanov B, Asada K, Edwards GE (2007) Analysis of donors of electrons to photosystem I and cyclic electron flow by redox kinetics of P700 in chloroplasts of isolated bundle sheath strands of maize. Photosynth. Res. 92, 65-74.
• Chuong SD, Franceschi VR, Edwards GE (2006) The cytoskeleton maintains organelle partitioning required for single-cell C4 photosynthesis in Chenopodiaceae species. Plant Cell 18, 2207-2223.
• Lara MV, Chuong SD, Akhani H, Andreo CS, Edwards GE (2006) Species having C4 single cell type photosynthesis in family Chenopodiaceae evolved a photosynthetic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase like that of C4 Kranz type species. Plant Physiol. 142, 673-684.
• Barkan L, Evans MA, Edwards GE (2006) Increasing UV-B induces biphasic leaf cell expansion in Phaseolus vulgaris, suggesting multiple mechanisms for controlling plant growth. Photochem. Photobiol. 82, 1612-1620.
• Voznesenskaya EV, Franceschi VR, Chuong SD, Edwards GE (2006) Functional characterization of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase type C4 leaf anatomy: Immuno, cytochemical and ultrastructural analyses. Ann. Bot. 98, 77-91.
• Kapralov MV, Akhani H, Voznesenskaya EV, Edwards GE, Franceschi V, Roalson EH (2006) Phylogenetic relationships in the Salicornioideae /Suaedoideae /Salsoloideae s.l. (Chenopodiaceae) clade and a clarification of the phylogenetic position of Bienertia and Alexandra using multiple DNA sequence datasets. Syst. Bot. 31, 571-585.
• Akhani H, Barroca J, Koteeva N, Voznesenskaya E, Franceschi V, Edwards GE, Ghaffari SM, Ziegler H (2005) Bienertia sinuspersici (Chenopodiaceae): a new species from SW Asia and discovery of a third terrestrial C4 plant without Kranz anatomy. Syst. Bot. 30, 290-301.
• Voznesenskaya EV, Koteyeva NK, Chuong SDX, Akhani H, Edwards GE, Franceschi VR (2005) Differentiation of cellular and biochemical features of the single cell C4 syndrome during leaf development in Bienertia cycloptera (Chenopodiaceae). Am. J. Bot. 92, 1784-1795.
• Edwards GE, Franceschi VR, Voznesenskaya EV (2004) Single-cell C4 photosynthesis versus the dual-cell (Kranz) paradigm. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 55, 173-196.
• Kramer DM, Avenson TJ, Edwards GE (2004) Dynamic flexibility in the light reactions of photosynthesis governed by both electron and proton transfer reactions. Trends Plant Sci. 9, 349-357.
• Voznesenskaya EV, Franceschi VR, Kiirats O, Artyusheva EG, Freitag H, Edwards GE (2002) Proof of C4 photosynthesis without Kranz anatomy in Bienertia cycloptera (Chenopodiaceae). Plant J. 31, 649-662.
• Sun J, Gibson KM, Kiirats O, Okita TW, Edwards GE (2002) Interactions of nitrate and CO2 enrichment on growth, carbohydrates, and rubisco in Arabidopsis starch mutants. Significance of starch and hexose. Plant Physiol. 130, 1573-1583.
• Voznesenskaya E, Franceschi V, Kiirats O, Freitag H, Edwards GE (2001) Kranz anatomy is not essential for terrestrial C4 plant photosynthesis. Nature 414, 543-546.