Projects per year
Personal profile
SUMMARY of research interests (100 words)
Marjorie applies plant ecophysiology and phylogeographic methods to understand how diverse photosynthetic systems evolve. She is particularly interested in C3-C4 intermediate phenotypes and C2 photosynthesis. She is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Physiology within the Plant & Crop Science group in the Lancaster Environment Centre and is a member of the Photosynthesis Team at LEC. She earned her PhD in 2015 from the University of Sheffield and gained post-doctorate experience from the University of Sheffield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
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User-defined keywords
- C2 photosynthesis
- C4 Evolution
- Plant Ecophysiology
- Leaf Anatomy
- Biogeography
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Mobile platform for tracking carbon through agri-ecosystems: ALERT 2024
Johnson, D. (Principal Investigator), Taylor, S. (Co-Investigator), Ostle, N. (Co-Investigator), Dodd, I. (Co-Investigator), Carmo-Silva, E. (Co-Investigator) & Lundgren, M. (Co-Investigator)
1/08/25 → 31/07/26
Project: Research
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FLF renewal: Enhancing crops with C2 photosynthesis
Lundgren, M. (Principal Investigator)
1/02/25 → 31/01/28
Project: Research
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The Wolfson Centre for Photosynthetic Diversity
Lundgren, M. (Principal Investigator) & Carmo-Silva, E. (Co-Investigator)
1/08/23 → 31/07/28
Project: Research
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RP: Rank Prize
Rumble, G. (Research Associate) & Lundgren, M. (Principal Investigator)
Project: Research
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FLF: FLF
Rumble, G. (Research Associate), Roberts, H. (Researcher), Lundgren, M. (Principal Investigator), Worrall, D. (Research Associate) & Hernandez-Verdeja, T. (Researcher)
15/06/23 → 15/10/23
Project: Research
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Mesophyll porosity is modulated by the presence of functional stomata
Lundgren, M., Mathers, A., Baillie, A. L., Dunn, J., Wilson, M., Hunt, L., Pajor, R., Fradera-Soler, M., Rolfe, S., Osborne, C. P., Sturrock, C. J., Gray, J. E., Mooney, S. J. & Fleming, A. J., 27/06/2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 10 p., 2825.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Open Access25 Citations (Scopus) -
C4 anatomy can evolve via a single developmental change
Lundgren, M. R., Dunning, L. T., Olofsson, J. K., Moreno-Villena, J. J., Bouvier, J. W., Sage, T., Khoshravesh, R., Sultmanis, S., Stata, M., Ripley, B. S., Vorontsova, M. S., Besnard, G., Adams, C., Cuff, N., Mapaura, A., Bianconi, M., Long, C. M., Christin, P.-A. & Osborne, C. P., 1/02/2019, In: Ecology Letters. 22, 2, p. 302-312 11 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Open AccessFile20 Citations (Scopus)675 Downloads (Pure) -
Agricultural biotechnology: Potential, challenges, and debate
Lundgren, M. R., Cavanagh, A. P. & Macnaghten, P., 30/09/2025, In: Plants, People, Planet. 7, 5, p. 1215-1219 5 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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C2 Photosynthesis across Scales
Roberts, H. R., Collins, C. F., Cruz, A. B. & Lundgren, M. R., 24/10/2025, In: Plant Ecophysiology. 1, 3, 2510001683.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Potential drivers of fast growth in Paulownia
Zhao, Y. & Lundgren, M. R., 26/11/2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Plants, People, Planet.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Review article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
Lundgren, M. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Rank Prize New Lecturer Award
Lundgren, M. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Society of Experimental Biology Plant Section President's Medal
Lundgren, M. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Press/Media
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Curious Kids: where did the first seed come from?
25/01/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Newspaper Article
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The interplay of photosynthesis and evolution – resolving the anatomical paradox
19/12/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Scientists move a step closer to understanding species distributions in the face of climate change
8/08/15
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Datasets
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Paulownia spp. leaf anatomical and physiological data
Young, S. (Creator) & Lundgren, M. (Supervisor), Lancaster University, 25/05/2022
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/536
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Contrasted histories of organelle and nuclear genomes underlying physiological diversification in a grass species
Bianconi, M. (Creator), Dunning, L. (Creator), Curran, E. (Creator), Hidalgo, O. (Creator), Powell, R. (Creator), Mian, S. (Creator), Leitch, I. (Creator), Lundgren, M. (Creator), Manzi, S. (Creator), Vorontsova, M. (Creator), Besnard, G. (Creator), Osborne, C. (Creator), Olofsson, J. (Creator) & Christin, P.-A. (Creator), Dryad, 2020
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.zs7h44j6v, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.zs7h44j6v
Dataset
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ESS-DIVE reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data and metadata
Ely, K. (Creator), Rogers, A. (Creator), Crystal-Ornelas, R. (Creator), Agarwal, D. (Contributor), Elizabeth, A. (Contributor), Albert, L. (Contributor), Ali, A. (Contributor), Anderson, J. (Contributor), Aspinwall, M. (Contributor), Bellasio, C. (Contributor), Bernacchi, C. (Contributor), Bonnage, S. (Contributor), Buckley, T. (Contributor), Bunce, J. (Contributor), Burnett, A. (Contributor), Busch, F. (Contributor), Cavanagh, A. (Contributor), Cernusak, L. (Contributor), Damerow, J. (Contributor), Davidson, K. (Contributor), De Kauwe, M. (Contributor), Dietze, M. (Contributor), Domingues, T. (Contributor), Dusenge, M. (Contributor), Ellsworth, D. (Contributor), Evans, J. (Contributor), Gauthier, P. (Contributor), Gimenez, B. (Contributor), Gordon, E. (Contributor), Gough, C. (Contributor), Halbritter, A. (Contributor), Hanson, D. (Contributor), Heskel, M. (Contributor), Hogan, A. (Contributor), Hupp, J. (Contributor), Jardine, K. (Contributor), Kattge, J. (Contributor), Keenan, T. (Contributor), Kromdijk, J. (Contributor), Kumarathunge, D. (Contributor), Lamour, J. (Contributor), Leakey, A. (Contributor), LeBauer, D. (Contributor), Li, Q. (Contributor), Lundgren, M. (Contributor), McDowell, N. (Contributor), Meacham-Hensold, K. (Contributor), Medlyn, B. (Contributor), Moore, D. (Contributor), Negrón-Juárez, R. (Contributor), Niinemets, Ü. (Contributor), Osborne, C. (Contributor), Pivovaroff, A. (Contributor), Porter, H. (Contributor), Reed, S. (Contributor), Ryu, Y. (Contributor), Sanz-Saez, A. (Contributor), Schmiege, S. (Contributor), Serbin, S. (Contributor), Sharkey, T. (Contributor), Slot, M. (Contributor), Smith, N. (Contributor), Sonewane, B. (Contributor), South, P. (Contributor), Souza, D. (Contributor), Stinziano, J. (Contributor), Stuart-Haëntjens, E. (Contributor), Taylor, S. (Contributor), Tejera, M. (Contributor), Uddling, J. (Contributor), Vandik, V. (Contributor), Varadharajan, C. (Contributor), Walker, A. (Contributor), Walker, B. (Contributor), Warren, J. (Contributor), Way, D. (Contributor), Wolfe, B. (Contributor), Wu, J. (Contributor), Wullschleger, S. (Contributor), Xu, C. (Contributor), Yang, D. (Contributor) & Yan, Z. (Contributor), Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Environmental Systems Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem, 2020
DOI: 10.15485/1659484, https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1659484/
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