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Research
Latest papers
Unveiling Foliar-Applied Calcium Translocation in Tomato: Evidence from Leaf-to-Fruit Movement Using Strontium Tracer.
Journal of experimental botany · 2026
Phytomers, collet and founder cells: a "universal" plant embryonic body plan from a developmental, molecular, and evolutionary perspective.
Frontiers in plant science · 2025 · senior author
Corrigendum: The effects of sampling and instrument orientation on LiDAR data from crop plots.
Frontiers in plant science · 2023
Latest funding
- $1,143,308
Adapting wheat to stressful environments: Identifying key transpiration efficiency components reducing day-time water loss and heat stress linked to yield
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $240,000
Apoplastic permeability barriers: a central regulating factor enabling plant resistance to abiotic stresses and dormancy induction.
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $180,431
Moving the corn belt northward: identifying key ultrastructural and physiological markers which provide chilling and frost stress resistance to enhance the breeding process
NSERC · 2015 · Principal investigator
13 publications.
Unveiling Foliar-Applied Calcium Translocation in Tomato: Evidence from Leaf-to-Fruit Movement Using Strontium Tracer.
Santos E, Montanha GS, da Silva HJFA, da Silva NGDC, Franco FS, Brandão JR, Huatatoca KAC, Rezende VP, Virgilio A, Karunakaran C, Tanino K, Lavres J, Pereira de Carvalho HW
Phytomers, collet and founder cells: a "universal" plant embryonic body plan from a developmental, molecular, and evolutionary perspective.
Venglat P, Vijayan P, Sharbel TF, Rahman A, Tanino K
Corrigendum: The effects of sampling and instrument orientation on LiDAR data from crop plots.
Khorsandi A, Tanino K, Noble SD
The effects of sampling and instrument orientation on LiDAR data from crop plots.
Khorsandi A, Tanino K, Noble SD
Identification of ultrastructural and biochemical cuticular markers influencing temperature of ice nucleation in selected genotypes of corn.
Hamilton K, Rahman T, Sadowski J, Karunakaran C, Tanino K
Transcriptomic analysis of differentially expressed genes in leaves and roots of two alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) cultivars with different salt tolerance.
Bhattarai S, Fu YB, Coulman B, Tanino K, Karunakaran C, Biligetu B
Diversity in Surface Microstructures of Trichomes, Epidermal Cells, and Stomata in Lentil Germplasm.
Patel I, Gorim LY, Tanino K, Vandenberg A
Elucidation of molecular and hormonal background of early growth cessation and endodormancy induction in two contrasting Populus hybrid cultivars.
Boldizsár Á, Soltész A, Tanino K, Kalapos B, Marozsán-Tóth Z, Monostori I, Dobrev P, Vankova R, Galiba G
Dissecting the Roles of Cuticular Wax in Plant Resistance to Shoot Dehydration and Low-Temperature Stress in Arabidopsis.
Rahman T, Shao M, Pahari S, Venglat P, Soolanayakanahally R, Qiu X, Rahman A, Tanino K
PIN FORMED 2 Modulates the Transport of Arsenite in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Ashraf MA, Umetsu K, Ponomarenko O, Saito M, Aslam M, Antipova O, Dolgova N, Kiani CD, Nehzati S, Tanoi K, Minegishi K, Nagatsu K, Kamiya T, Fujiwara T, Luschnig C, Tanino K, Pickering I, George GN, Rahman A
Adapting wheat to stressful environments: Identifying key transpiration efficiency components reducing day-time water loss and heat stress linked to yield
Principal investigators: Tanino, Karen K
Keywords: aquaporins; canopy architecture; cuticular waxes; day time water loss; drought stress; heat stress; selection criteria; transpiration efficiency; wheat
Apoplastic permeability barriers: a central regulating factor enabling plant resistance to abiotic stresses and dormancy induction.
Principal investigators: Tanino, Karen
Moving the corn belt northward: identifying key ultrastructural and physiological markers which provide chilling and frost stress resistance to enhance the breeding process
Principal investigators: Tanino, Karen
Conservation of forest resources through improved seed quality and seedling stress resilience in conifers
Principal investigators: Kermode, Allison
Apoplastic alterations as a common mechanism to freezing avoidance and growth cessation/dormancy induction through temperature-mediated pectin gelation
Principal investigators: Tanino, Karen
Establishment of research collaboration between College of Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan and the semiarid regions of Americas
Principal investigators: Gusta, Lawrence
Abscisic acid induction of vegetative maturity stage of rest
Principal investigators: Tanino, Karen
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Chithra Karunakaran and Karen Tanino: 4 shared papers
- Chithra Karunakaran and Bill Biligetu: 2 shared papers
- Ingrid Pickering and Karen Tanino: 1 shared paper
- Xiao Qiu and Karen Tanino: 1 shared paper
- Karen Tanino and Bill Biligetu: 1 shared paper
- Plant Sciences
- Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering
- Plant Sciences/College of Agriculture and Bioresources
- Geological Sciences
- Food and Bioproduct Sciences
Co-authors at University of Saskatchewan, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Chithra Karunakaran
Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Bill Biligetu
Plant Sciences/College of Agriculture and Bioresources
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Ingrid Pickering
Geological Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Xiao Qiu
Food and Bioproduct Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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