Totte Niittylä is a professor of plant physiology since 1 October 2024. His inauguration lecture has the title "Following the carbon – from the atmosphere to wood".
Totte Niittylä researches wood formation in trees, a process that is vital in the global carbon cycle, as well as in climate change mitigation. In his study of plant metabolism and growth, he combines a variety of tools to identify genes, enzymes and metabolic pathways central to the conversion of carbon dioxide into wood biomass. His team is now developing tools to measure and model how carbon flows from photosynthesis in the leaves, along the stem, to fuel wood growth. The applied goal is to contribute to genetic plant breeding tools to increase carbon allocation to wood.
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