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Alan Teramura
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Dr. Alan Teramura |
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Professor of Botany |
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PhD 1978, Duke University |
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Contact Information
Phone:(808) 956-4115
Fax: (808) 956-3923
Email: teramura@hawaii.edu
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Graduate
Faculty Memberships
Botany; Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology
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| Research Interests |
- Effects of solar UV on terrestrial plants and ecosystems
- Plant responses to global climate change
- Environmental stress physiology
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Statement
I have been interested in the effects of global
climate change (solar ultraviolet radiation and enhanced CO2) on
terrestrial plant processes and ecosystem function for over 20 years.
This has involved work with both agriculturally important crop plants
such as soybean and rice, as well as native Hawaiian plant species
collected along an elevational gradient. Plant adaptations to such
environmental changes involves molecular, biochemical, physiological
and morphometric responses. Some of these responses are species
specific and many have important indirect effects on tropic dynamics
and structure.
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Selected
Publications (out of 100+)
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Caldwell, MM, CL Ballare, JF Borman, SD Flint,
LO Bjorn, AH Teramura, G Kulandaivelu and M Tevini, 2003. Terrestrial
ecosystems, increased solar ultraviolet radiation and interactions
with other climatic change factors. Photochem Photobiol Sci
2:29-38
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Middleton, EM and AH Teramura 1994. Understanding
photosynthesis, pigment and growth responses induced by UV-B
and UV-A irradiances. Photochem Photobiol 60:38-45
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Teramura, AH and JH Sullivan 1994. Effects
of UV-B radiation on photosynthesis and growth of terrestrial
plants. Photosynthesis Res 39:463-473.
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Sullivan, JH and AH Teramura 1994. The effects
of UV-B on loblolly pine. Plant, Cell and Environ 17:311-317.
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Middleton, EM and AH Teramura 1993. The role
of flavonol glycosides and carotenoids in protecting soybean
from UB-B damage. Plant Physiol 103:741-752
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Ziska. LH, AH Teramura, JH Sullivan. 1992
Physiological sensitivity of plant collected along an elevational
gradient of UV-B radiation. Am J Bot 79:863-871.
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