ROWAN F. SAGE

CURRICULUM VITAE

February 19, 2008

 

A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

 

1. Personal

 

Rowan F. Sage                        Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Date of Birth: Sept. 2, 1958             University of Toronto           

Phone: 416-978-7660                   25 Willcocks St.

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.            Toronto, ON  M5S3B2 Canada

 

2. Degrees

 

Ph.D., Botany             August, 1986,             University of California, Davis

Dissertation:             Nitrogen Use Efficiency in C₃ and C₄ Plants

Advisor:             Dr. Robert Pearcy

 

M.Sc., Botany            June, 1982            University of California, Davis

B.A., Biology               June, 1980             Colorado College   

        

3. Employment

 

Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology  7-04 to present

Chair, Department of Botany      7-04 to 7-06

   

4. Research Interests

 

Plant physiological ecology; plant acclimation and adaptation, particularly to CO₂ and temperature; photosynthesis and the environment; C₄ photosynthesis; the evolution of C₄ photosynthesis; stress physiology; global change biology; bioenergy.

 

B. Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

 

Sage, R.F. (1994) Photosynthetic acclimation to elevated CO₂.  The gas exchange perspective.  Photosyn  Res.  39:351-368

 

Sage, R.F., J. Santrucek,  and D.J. Grise (1995) Temperature effects on the photosynthetic response of C₃ plants to long-term CO₂ enrichment.  Vegetatio 121:67-77

 

Cowling, S.A. and R.F. Sage (1998) Interactive effects of low atmospheric CO₂ and elevated temperature on growth, photosynthesis and respiration in Phaseolus vulgaris.  Plant, Cell and Environ. 21:427-435.

 

Sage, R.F. and J.R. Coleman (2001) Low CO₂ effects on plants:more than a thing of the past. Trends in Plant Science 6: 18-24

 

 

Sage RF (2001) Environmental and evolutionary preconditions for the origin and diversification of the C₄ photosynthetic syndrome. Plant Biology 3:202-213

 

Sage RF (2002) Are CAM and C₄ photosynthesis incompatible? Australian J Plant Physiology 29:775-785

 

Sage RF (2002) Variation in the molar activity of Rubisco in C₃ and C₄ plants with some implications for photosynthetic performance at high and low temperature. J Experimental Botany 369:609-620

 

Sage RF (2002) How Terrestrial Organisms Sense, Signal and Respond to Carbon Dioxide.

       Comparative and Integrative Biology 42:469-480

 

Kubien, D.S., von Caemmerer, S., Furbank, R. Sage, R.F. (2003) C₄ photosynthesis at low temperature: a study using transgenic plants with reduced amounts of Rubisco. Plant Physiology. 132:1577-1585.

 

 Sage, R.F., Kubien D.S. (2003) Quo Vadis C₄?  An Ecophysiological Perspective on Global Change and the future of C₄ Plants. Photosynthesis Research. 77:209-225

 

Kocacinar, F., Sage R.F. (2003) Photosynthetic pathway alters xylem structure and hydraulic function in herbaceous plants.  Plant, Cell Environment 26:2015-2026

 

Sage, R.F. (2004) The evolution of C₄ Photosynthesis. New Phytologist 161: 341-370.

 

Kubien, D.K. and Sage, R.F. (2004) Low temperature photosynthetic performance in C₄ and C₃ grasses native to high latitudes. Plant Cell and Environment, 27:907-916.

 

 

 

Campbell, C.C. , Sage, R.F., Kocacinar F., and Way, D.A.  (2005) Estimation of the whole-plant CO₂ compensation point of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.). Global Change Biology. 11: 1956-1967.

 

Sage, RF and McKown, AD (2006) Is C₄ photosynthesis less phenotypically plastic than C₃ photosynthesis? Journal of Experimental Botany 57:303-317.

 

Campbell, C.C. and Sage, R.F, Kocacinar F.and Way DA (2006) Interactions between the effects of atmospheric CO₂ content and phosphorous nutrition on photosynthesis in white lupin (Lupinus albus L.). Plant Cell and Environment 29:844-853

 

Muhaidat, R., Sage, R.F., Dengler, N.G. (2007) Diversity of Kranz anatomy and biochemistry in C₄ eudicots. American Journal of Botany. 94:362-381.

 

Sage, R.F., Kubien, D. K. (2007) The temperature response of C3 and C4 photosynthesis. Plant, Cell and Environment. 30:1086-1107.

 

Vogan, P.J., Frohlich, M.W. and Sage, R.F. (2007) The functional significance of C3-C4 intermediate traits in Heliotropium L. (Boraginaceae): gas exchange perspective. Plant Cell and Environment 30: 1337-1345.

 

Makino, A. and Sage, R.F. (2007)  Temperature response of photosynthesis in transgenic rice transgenic rice transformed with  ‘sense’ or ‘antisense constructs’  with  rbcs. Plant Cell Physiology 48:1472-1483.

 

Way, D.A. and Sage R.F. (2008) Elevated temperatures reduce the carbon gain of black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.). Global Change Biology  14:624-636.

 

Kubien, D.S.  and Sage R.F. (2008) The temperature response of tobacco with reduced amounts of Rubisco.  Plant Cell and Environment 31: 407-418.

 

Sage, R.F., Way, D.A., Kubien D.S. (2008) Rubisco, Rubisco activase, and global climate change. Journal of Experimental Botany 59: 1581-1595.

 

Way, D.A. and Sage R.F. (2008) Thermal acclimation of photosynthesis in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.). Plant Cell and Environment 31:1250-1262.

 

Sage, R.F., Coiner H.A., Way^, D.A., Runion GB, Prior SA,  Torbert H.A., Sicher R. and Ziska L. (2008) Kudzu [Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. variety lobata]: a new source of carbohydrate for bioethanol production. Biomass and Bioenergy. 33:57-61.

 

C. Books edited

 

Sage, R.F. and Monson, R.K. eds. C₄ Plant Biology, 1999. Academic Press, San Diego.

 

Raghavendra A and Sage R.F., eds. 2009. C₄ photosynthesis and Related CO₂ Concentrating Mechanisms. Springer. Berlin (in press).

 

D. EDITORIAL SERVICE

 

1.          Associate Editor – Global Change Biology

2.         Editorial Board – Oecologia

3.         Editorial board - Photosynthesis Research

4.         Editorial board – Plant Cell and Environment