Joe Holtum
Professor - Promotional Chair
Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Studies
James Cook University
Australia
Biography
Joe Holtum is a plant ecophysiologist interested in the mechanisms that permit plants to survive when times are tough. He have a particular focus on how the roughly 6% of plant species that exhibit a water-conserving type of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) respond to temperature, water-limitation and to changing concentrations of atmospheric CO2. Joe Holtum is a plant ecophysiologist interested in the mechanisms that permit plants to survive when times are tough. He have a particular focus on how the roughly 6% of plant species that exhibit a water-conserving type of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) respond to temperature, water-limitation and to changing concentrations of atmospheric CO2.
Research Interest
Carbon metabolism in CAM plants and tropical epiphytes, Physiology and ecology of Australian desert plants,Ecophysiology of Australian ant-plants
