David Tissue, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University

TTU, Dept. of Biological Sciences, P.O. Box 43131, Lubbock, TX 79409
806.742.2786 |   1.806.742.2963
david.tissue@ttu.edu
http://www.faculty.biol.ttu.edu/tissue

Education

• Ph.D., Biology, University of California–Los Angeles (1989)
• M.Sc., Biology, San Diego State University (1984)
• B.Sc., Biology, McGill University (1980)

Dr. David Tissue's research interests are in the physiological, growth, and reproductive responses of plants to changes in the availability of resources. This includes a focus on evaluating global climate change impacts on managed and native ecosystems, the impact of elevated CO₂ on plant and ecosystem carbon and water exchange, and the impact of variable precipitation on arid land ecosystems. Current research includes evaluating the impact of deficit irrigation and temperature stress on peanut physiology and yield, the impact of elevated CO₂ on the physiology and growth of onion, the effects of developmental changes on physiological processes, arid land response to changes in precipitation. Another project examines the mistletoe-spruce parasitic interaction as a model system for understanding the integration of development and physiology across scales.

Dr. Tissue is a member of the Ecological Society of America, the Botanical Society of America, and Sigma Xi. He has been awarded many grants and fellowships; these include research grants from the Texas Tech University International Cotton Research Center (2006-2008), the USDA (2003-2006, 2005-2007), the Department of Energy's National Institute for Climate Change Research (2006-2009), and NASA (2005-2007).

Courses Taught
Biology of Plants, Physiological Plant Ecology, Plant Physiology, Global Change Biology Seminar

Selected Publications

• Patrick, L., J. Cable, D. Ignace, D. Potts, G. Barron-Gafford, N. Van Gestel, T. Robertson, H. Alpert, A. Griffith, T. Huxman, J. Zak, M. Loik and D. Tissue. Effects of an increase in summer precipitation on net ecosystem CO2 and H2O fluxes in a sotol-grassland in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Oecologia (in review).
• Barbour, M.M., A.S. Walcroft, R.J. Dungan, M.H. Turnbull, D.T. Tissue, K.L. Griffin, D. Whitehead and G.D. Farquhar. Evaluating a process-based, environmentally-driven model of canopy carbon and water exchange in a mature Nothofagus forest using stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of phloem sap. Plant Cell and Environment (in review).
• Kornyeyev, D., B.A. Logan, D.T. Tissue and A.S. Holaday. 2006. Compensation for photosystem II photoinactivation by regulated non-photochemical dissipation influences the impact of photoinhibition on electron transport and CO2 assimilation. Plant and Cell Physiology 47:437-446.
• Reblin, J.S., B.A. Logan and D.T. Tissue. 2006. Impact of eastern dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium pusillum) infection on the needles of red (Picea rubens) and white spruce (P. glauca): oxygen exchange, biochemistry and morphology. Tree Physiology (in press).
• Tissue, D.T., M.M. Barbour, J. Hunt, M.H. Turnbull, K.L. Griffin, A.S. Walcroft, and D. Whitehead. 2006. Spatial and temporal scaling of intercellular CO2 concentration in a temperate rainforest dominated by Dacrydium cupressinum in New Zealand. Plant, Cell and Environment 29:497-510.
• Walcroft, A., K.J. Brown, W.S.F. Schuster, D.T. Tissue, M.H. Turnbull, K.L. Griffin, and D. Whitehead. 2006. Radiative transfer and carbon assimilation in relation to canopy architecture, foliage area distribution and clumping in a mature temperate rainforest canopy in New Zealand. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 135:326-339.
• Kane, C.D., R.L. Jasoni, E.P. Peffley, L.D. Thompson, C.J. Green, P. Pare and D.T. Tissue. 2006. Nutrient solution and solution pH influences onion growth and mineral content. Journal of Plant Nutrition 29:375-390.