Dr Robert Caine

School of Biosciences

Postdoctoral Research Associate

b.caine@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0079

Alfred Denny Building

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Dr Robert Caine
School of Biosciences
Alfred Denny Building
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN

Profile

Research Associate (Remote sensing and crop biotechnology), Holly Croft lab, University of Sheffield, UK (2021-)
GCRF Research Fellow (Fortifying rice performance in response to climate change), University of Sheffield, UK (2019-2021)
Research Associate (Genetic alterations to rice stomatal development to improve drought tolerance and water-use), Julie Gray lab, Sheffield, UK (2016-2019)
PhD (Stomatal Development and Evolution), University of Sheffield, UK (2012-2016)
BSc (Biology and Japanese combined honours) , Oxford Brookes University, UK (2008-2012)

Research interests: I am interested in increasing the water-use and photosynthetic performance of crops when grown under climatic conditions predicted to occur within the next 50 to 100 years. This focus is centred around how we can adjust stomata above-ground and roots below ground to ultimately maximise future yields. I have extensive research experience in working with rice and wheat and have previously worked in the fields of stomatal development and land plant evolution.

Publications

Journal articles

Caine RS, Khan MS, Brench RA, Walker HJ & Croft HL (2024) Inside-out: Synergising leaf biochemical traits with stomatal-regulated water fluxes to enhance transpiration modelling during abiotic stress.. Plant Cell Environ.
Caine RS, Harrison EL, Sloan J, Flis PM, Fischer S, Khan MS, Nguyen PT, Nguyen LT, Gray JE & Croft H (2023) The influences of stomatal size and density on rice abiotic stress resilience. New Phytologist.
Bertolino LT, Caine RS, Zoulias N, Yin X, Chater CCC, Biswal A, Quick WP & Gray JE (2022) Stomatal Development and Gene Expression in Rice Florets. Plant and Cell Physiology, 63(11), 1679-1694.
Pitaloka MK, Caine RS, Hepworth C, Harrison EL, Sloan J, Chutteang C, Phunthong C, Nongngok R, Toojinda T, Ruengphayak S , Arikit S et al (2022) Induced genetic variations in stomatal density and size of rice strongly affects water use efficiency and responses to drought stresses. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13.
Pitaloka MK, Harrison EL, Hepworth C, Wanchana S, Toojinda T, Phetluan W, Brench RA, Narawatthana S, Vanavichit A, Gray JE , Caine RS et al (2021) Rice stomatal mega-papillae restrict water loss and pathogen entry. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12.
Caine RS, Chater CCC, Fleming AJ & Gray JE (2020) Stomata and sporophytes of the model moss physcomitrium patens. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11.
Buckley CR, Caine RS & Gray JE (2020) Pores for thought : can genetic manipulation of stomatal density protect future rice yields?. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10.
Mohammed U, Caine RS, Atkinson JA, Harrison EL, Wells D, Chater CC, Gray JE, Swarup R & Murchie EH (2019) Rice plants overexpressing OsEPF1 show reduced stomatal density and increased root cortical aerenchyma formation.. Scientific Reports, 9.
Bertolino LT, Caine RS & Gray JE (2019) Impact of Stomatal Density and Morphology on Water-Use Efficiency in a Changing World. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10.
Caine RS, Yin X, Sloan J, Harrison EL, Mohammed U, Fulton T, Biswal AK, Dionora J, Chater CC, Coe RA , Bandyopadhyay A et al (2018) Rice with reduced stomatal density conserves water and has improved drought tolerance under future climate conditions. New Phytologist, 22(1), 371-384.
Hepworth C, Caine RS, Harrison EL, Sloan J & Gray JE (2018) Stomatal development: focusing on the grasses. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 41, 1-7.
Srivastava AK, Zhang C, Caine RS, Gray J & Sadanandom A (2017) Rice SUMO protease Overly Tolerant to Salt 1 targets the transcription factor, OsbZIP23 to promote drought tolerance in rice.. Plant Journal.
Chater C, Caine RS, Fleming AJ & Gray JE (2017) Origins and evolution of stomatal development. Plant physiology, 147(2).
Chater CC, Caine RS, Tomek M, Wallace S, Kamisugi Y, Cuming AC, Lang D, MacAlister CA, Casson S, Bergmann DC , Decker EL et al (2016) Origin and function of stomata in the moss Physcomitrella patens.. Nature Plants, 2(12), ---.
Caine R, Chater CC, Kamisugi Y, Cuming AC, Beerling DJ, Gray JE & Fleming AJ (2016) An ancestral stomatal patterning module revealed in the non-vascular land plant Physcomitrella patens.. Development, 143, 3306-3314.
Mohammed U, Caine RS, Atkinson JA, Harrison EL, Wells D, Chater CC, Gray JE, Swarup R & Murchie EH () Author Correction: Rice plants overexpressing OsEPF1 show reduced stomatal density and increased root cortical aerenchyma formation. Scientific Reports, 9(1).

Other

Croft H, Caine R & Khan M (2024) Modelling crop traits and fluxes under multiple abiotic stressors.
Caine R, Berry P, Storer K & Croft H (2024) Modelling crop productivity, water fluxes and yield in winter wheat from remotely-sensed drone data under differential sulphur, nitrogen and or sugar application..
Cunningham ST, Bryant RG, Khan MS, Caine RS, Edmondson J, Absalom ECP, Turner A, Blackman R & Croft H (2024) Modelling water fluxes from urban trees using ECOSTRESS and sap-flow data.
Khan MS, Caine RS, Morrison R & Croft HL (2024) Improved modelled crop water-use and crop productivity using thermal and optical remote sensing data .

Preprints

Caine R, Khan MS, Brench RA, Walker H & Croft HL (2023) Inside-out: synergising leaf biochemical traits with stomatal-regulated water fluxes to enhance transpiration modelling during abiotic stress., Authorea, Inc..
Caine RS, Harrison EL, Sloan JM, Flis PM, Fischer S, Phuoc NT, Lang NT, Gray JE & Croft HL (2022) The Influences of Stomatal Size and Density on Rice Drought, Salinity and VPD Resilience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Pitaloka MK, Caine RS, Hepworth C, Harrison EL, Sloan J, Chutteang C, Phuntong C, Nongngok R, Toojinda T, Ruengpayak S , Arikit S et al (2021) Induced Genetic Variations in Stomatal Density and Size of Rice Strongly Affect Water-Use Efficiency, Drought Tolerance, and Responses to Abiotic Stresses, Research Square Platform LLC.