Esa
Tyystjärvi
Docent, Faculty of Science
University Teacher, Molecular Plant Biology
FT, Docent
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Areas of expertise
automatic plant identification
chlorophyll fluorescence
drones
photoinhibition
photosynthesis
photosystem II
plastoquinone
precision agriculture
Biography
Researcher and teacher in University of Turku, departments of Biology and Biochemistry, since 1989.
Teaching
I teach both basic plant biology and biochemistry and advanced courses of plant biology and biophysics.
Research
My basic research focuses on the light reactions of photosynthesis, and photoinhibition of Photosystem II has long been my favorite topic. Recently I have also worked with plastoquinone. I have been active in use and development of various biophysical research methods, including chlorophyll fluorescence and thermoluminescence. In addition to basic research, I have applied research on automatic identification of agricultural plants and weeds with various methods including chlorophyll fluorescence and drone photography. I have also worked on the practical use of algae in wastewater purification.
Publications
Photosynthetic sea slugs induce protective changes to the light reactions of the chloroplasts they steal from algae (2020)
eLife
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Measurement of the redox state of the plastoquinone pool in cyanobacteria (2020)
FEBS Letters
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Testing the Potential of Regulatory Sigma Factor Mutants for Wastewater Purification or Bioreactor Run in High Light (2020)
Current Microbiology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Oxygen and ROS in photosynthesis (2020)
Plants
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))
Effects of low temperature on photoinhibition and singlet oxygen production in four natural accessions of Arabidopsis (2020)
Planta
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Stable wastewater treatment with Neochloris oleoabundans in a tubular photobioreactor (2020)
Journal of Applied Phycology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Dissecting the interaction of photosynthetic electron transfer with mitochondrial signalling and hypoxic response in the Arabidopsis rcd1 mutant (2020)
Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Unresolved quenching mechanisms of chlorophyll fluorescence may invalidate MT saturating pulse analyses of photosynthetic electron transfer in microalgae (2019)
Physiologia Plantarum
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Physiological and compensatory growth responses of Jatropha curcas (L.) seedlings to simulated herbivory and drought stress (2019)
South African Journal of Botany
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Photoinhibition and continuous growth of the wild-type and a high-light tolerant strain of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (2019)
Photosynthetica
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))