Professor Alistair Hetherington

Research summary

The research in my group centres on understanding, at the cellular level, how plants respond to a changing environment. Specifically we are interested in identifying the individual components present in ...

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Biography

Alistair Hetherington is Melville Wills Professor of Botany in the University of Bristol

Career

I graduated from the University of St Andrews with a BSc in Botany in 1979 and remained ...

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Memberships

School of Biological Sciences

Research groups

• Plant and Agricultural Sciences
• Ecology and Environmental Change

Latest publications

• He, J, Zhang, RX, Peng, K, Tagliavia, C, Li, S, Xue, S, Liu, A, Hu, H, Zhang, J, Hubbard, KE, Held, K, Mcainsh, MR, Gray, JE, Kudla, J, Schroeder, JI, Liang, YK & Hetherington, AM, 2018, ‘The BIG protein distinguishes the process of CO₂-induced stomatal closure from the inhibition of stomatal opening by CO₂’. New Phytologist.
• Schäfer, N, Maierhofer, T, Herrmann, J, Jørgensen, ME, Lind, C, von Meyer, K, Lautner, S, Fromm, J, Felder, M, Hetherington, AM, Ache, P, Geiger, D & Hedrich, R, 2018, ‘A Tandem Amino Acid Residue Motif in Guard Cell SLAC1 Anion Channel of Grasses Allows for the Control of Stomatal Aperture by Nitrate’. Current Biology, vol 28., pp. 1370-1379.e5

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