Dr Varsha S. Pathare
@vspathare19
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Plant eco physiologist | Assistant Professor @CornellCALS | Mom | Daughter of Indian farmer
Cornell University
Joined December 2017
First day at work and pleasantly surprised to see my new lab buddies already waiting to be unpacked! !
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My lab will focus on (1) Identifying and Redesigning leaf cell wall properties for optimized crop water-use ; (2) Developing an integrated understanding of plant-atmosphere CO2-water fluxes under G x E x M to optimize C-capture and water-use of cropping systems.
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All set to launch my new Crop Ecophysiology group at Cornell University on 1st July 2025. Prospective PhD students (with experience in microscopy, NMR, molecular biology, plant physiology & programming language) please email (vsp29@cornell.edu) your CV & research interests.
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Our Soybean lines are giving a high throughput performance !
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📢 I will be joining @CornellCALS as a tenure-track assistant professor in field crop ecophysiology in the summer of 2025! I am very grateful to my parents, family, and mentors @ausellsworth @OulaGhannoum @leakey77 and Asaph Cousins for their constant support!.
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Excited to see our multi-disciplinary, collaborative #eucface work published @Nature. We demonstrate that competition from soil microbes for nutrients like P may limit the abilities of mature forests to remove extra CO2 from atmosphere.
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Nature - Microbial pre-emption of mineralized soil P limits the capacity of trees for increased P uptake and assimilation under elevated CO2 and therefore restricts their capacity to sequester...
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My little army of licors is measuring Soy gas exchange rates in full swing today!!
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Hello World… India is on the Moon!! Congratulations and Thank you @isro.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:.'India🇮🇳,.I reached my destination.and you too!'.: Chandrayaan-3. Chandrayaan-3 has successfully.soft-landed on the moon 🌖!. Congratulations, India🇮🇳!. #Chandrayaan_3.#Ch3.
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Happy Independence Day my Motherland 💐Proud to be born in the world’s most oldest, richest and diverse civilization!!
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Our new work @PlantPhys demonstrates that altering cell wall composition improves mesophyll conductance (CO2 supply to Rubisco), photosynthetic CO2 uptake and canopy water-use efficiency in Rice. @Balasaheb4u
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Changes in hydroxycinnamic acid content decrease cell wall thickness, increasing mesophyll conductance and photosynthesis in C3 cereals.
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Delighted and satisfied to see that our manuscript on 100 most important plant science questions is helpful for the plant community!.
🌿🌸🌱Welcome to #PlantsFascinationWeek!. To celebrate our fascination for plants, this week we’ll be sharing relevant plant science questions outlined on the @NewPhyt article together with the @annbot papers that contribute to address them. Stay tuned!
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Our manuscript #100PlantQuestions highlighting the 100 most important questions for future plant science research, is now online. Glad to be part of a global, diverse, and inclusive team of plant science experts.
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The ‘One Hundred Important Questions Facing Plant Science Research’ project aimed to capture a global snapshot of the current issues and future questions facing plant science. This revisiting builds...
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RT @PlantQuestions: Learn more about the methods our authors used to ID our #100PlantQuestions in this thread by @emilyxarmstrong! https://….
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Preprint Alert: We demonstrate that modifications in cell wall composition enhance mesophyll conductance and photosynthesis in rice without a detrimental effect on growth.
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Cell wall properties can play a major role in determining photosynthetic carbon-uptake and water-use through impacts on mesophyll conductance (CO2 diffusion from substomatal cavities into photosynt...
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RT @PlantQuestions: Our #PlantQuestions papers are published in 7 days in @NewPhyt!. What are the biggest issues facing plants on a global….
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Happy to see this published! Our new work testing importance of functional and developmental constraints on phenotypic evolution in stomatal anatomy of flowering plants | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja
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Abstract Quantifying the relative contribution of functional and developmental constraints on phenotypic variation is a long-standing goal of macroevolution, but it is often difficult to distinguish...
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RT @RoxyPebdani: Academic moms - trying to quantify how Covid impacted your research productivity? Our newest paper can help. Check out thi….
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RT @NewPhyt: Mesophyll conductance response to short-term changes in pCO2 is related to leaf anatomy and biochemistry in diverse C4 grasses….
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Ecosystems with greater species diversity are more stable, efficient, productive and resilient. Similarly for India-our diversity is our strength, not weakness. Happy 75th Independence Day my motherland! A big salute to those who sacrificed their lives so that we enjoy freedom!!
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