Professor Rowan F. Sage

University of Toronto
25 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5S 3B2
Tel: +1-416-978-3537; Fax: +1-416-978-5878
E-mail: rsage@botany.utoronto.ca
http://www.eeb.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/rsage
Area of expertise: Physiological plant ecology, whole plant and stress physiology with an emphasis on C3 and C4 photosynthesis, temperature, global change biology, and bioenergy

• Sage TL, Sage RF (2009) The functional anatomy of rice leaves: implications for refixation of photorespiratory CO2 and efforts to engineer C4 photosynthesis into rice. Plant Cell Physiol. 50, 756-772.
• Guralnick LJ, Cline A, Smith M, Sage RF (2008) Evolutionary physiology: the extent of C4 and CAM photosynthesis in the genera Anacampseros and Grahamia of the Portulacaceae. J. Exp. Bot. 59, 1735-1742.
• Muhaidat R, Sage RF, Dengler NG (2007) Diversity of Kranz anatomy and biochemistry in C4 eudicots. Am. J. Bot. 94, 362-381.
• Nelson EA, Sage TL, Sage RF (2005) Functional leaf anatomy of plants with crassulacean acid metabolism. Funct. Plant Biol. 32, 409-419.
• Kocacinar F, Sage RF (2004) Photosynthetic pathway alters hydraulic structure and function in woody plants. Oecologia 139, 214-223.
• Sage RF (2004) The evolution of C4 photosynthesis. New Phytol. 161, 341-370.
• Kubien DS, Sage RF (2003) C4 grasses in boreal fens: their occurrence in relation to microsite characteristics. Oecologia 137, 330-337.
• Sage RF, Sage TL (2002) Microsite characteristics of Muhlenbergia richardsonis (Trin.) Rydb., an alpine C4 grass from the White Mountains, California. Oecologia 132, 501-508.
• Sage RF, Coleman JR (2001) Effects of low atmospheric CO2 on plants: more than a thing of the past. Trends Plant Sci. 6, 18-24.
• Sage RF, Monson RK (1998) PART I. C4 Plant Biology. Academic Press, San Diego, USA (eds Sage, RF and Monson, RK) 3-14.
• Sage RF (1995) Was low atmospheric CO2 during the Pleistocene a limiting factor for the origin of agriculture? Glob. Chang. Biol. 1, 93-106.
• Sage RF (1994) Acclimation of photosynthesis to increasing atmospheric CO2: the gas exchange perspective. Photosyn. Res. 39, 351-368.