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Thorsten Knipfer
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Research
Latest papers
Extension of the triphasic water potential curve: Accounting for air vapor pressure deficit under soil water stress.
Plant physiology · 2025 · senior author
Using the water potential curve to identify the transition from water-consumptive to water-conservative behaviour in Cucumis melo.
Functional plant biology : FPB · 2025
Differential impact of commercial rootstocks on the physiological response of a common walnut scion to drought stress.
Physiologia plantarum · 2025
Latest funding
- $143,263
Field deployable instrumentation for spatiotemporal quantification of greenhouse gas emissions
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $12,500
The sequence of drought-induced physiological and anatomical events in woody perennial crops
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $152,000
The sequence of drought-induced physiological and anatomical events in woody perennial crops
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
13 publications.
Extension of the triphasic water potential curve: Accounting for air vapor pressure deficit under soil water stress.
Bristow ST, Knipfer T
Using the water potential curve to identify the transition from water-consumptive to water-conservative behaviour in Cucumis melo.
di Santo H, Knipfer T, Barrios-Masias FH
Differential impact of commercial rootstocks on the physiological response of a common walnut scion to drought stress.
Momayyezi M, Knipfer T, Hernandez-Perez MI, Kluepfel DA, Wakholi C, Rippner DA, Albuquerque CP, Bambach NE, DeGrom J, McElrone AJ
Mapping of drought-induced changes in tissue characteristics across the leaf profile of Populus balsamifera.
Momayyezi M, Chu C, Stobbs JA, Soolanayakanahally RY, Guy RD, McElrone AJ, Knipfer T
Unique root hydraulic and mechanical properties support the resilience of grapevines adapted to the Atacama Desert.
Barrientos-Sanhueza C, Zurita-Silva A, Knipfer T, McElrone AJ, Cuneo IF
A new empirical framework to quantify the hydraulic effects of soil and atmospheric drivers on plant water status.
Mencuccini M, Anderegg WRL, Binks O, Knipfer T, Konings AG, Novick K, Poyatos R, Martínez-Vilalta J
Leaf water relations and osmotic adjustment of Canada Western Red Spring wheat cultivars subjected to drought.
Sharma G, Brar GS, Knipfer T
Drought-induced fiber water release and xylem embolism susceptibility of intact balsam poplar saplings.
Chu C, Momayyezi M, Stobbs JA, Soolanayakanahally RY, McElrone AJ, Knipfer T
Editorial: Plant-water relations for sustainable agriculture.
Knipfer T, Cuneo IF
Ecologically driven selection of nonstructural carbohydrate storage in oak trees.
Furze ME, Wainwright DK, Huggett BA, Knipfer T, McElrone AJ, Brodersen CR
Field deployable instrumentation for spatiotemporal quantification of greenhouse gas emissions
Principal investigators: Smukler, Sean
The sequence of drought-induced physiological and anatomical events in woody perennial crops
Principal investigators: Knipfer, Thorsten
The sequence of drought-induced physiological and anatomical events in woody perennial crops
Principal investigators: Knipfer, Thorsten
Keywords: crop physiology; drought; xylem function; water storage; sustainability; x-ray computed tomography; phenotyping; root water uptake; irrigation; anatomy
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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