1. Cooperative Research Centre – Future Food Systems. 2022-2027. National Vegetable Protected Cropping Centre (NVPCC) – glasshouse films to reduce energy use and increase resource use efficiency. (Tissue, Ghannoum, Chen, Cazzonelli, Sharwood, Lan). $3,687,417.
- Western Sydney University
- Australia
- PhD University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Areas of interest
Plant physiology; climate change; crop productivity; plant response to drought, floods and heatwaves
Biography
Distinguished Professor David Tissue is a plant physiologist with >35 years-experience assessing plant response to environmental conditions, including temperature and water stress, in managed and native ecosystems and has published > 235 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. He investigates the impact of environmental factors on leaf, soil and ecosystem fluxes of CO2 and water, with a particular emphasis on photosynthesis, respiration, and plant water relations on native plants and crops. His climate change research brings a fundamental shift in current understanding of plant and ecosystem response to the main and interactive effects of elevated CO2, elevated temperature, variation in the timing and magnitude of rainfall, and extreme climate (floods, droughts, heatwaves). His research underpins advancements in quantification of the processes that affect productivity, species composition and richness, carbon and water fluxes at the leaf, soil and ecosystem level, microbial community structure and function, and soil respiration. He has published more than 350 manuscripts and mentored more than 50 graduate students.
Research Project
2. Cooperative Research Centre – Future Food Systems. 2023-2028. Crop monitoring. (Tissue, Ghannoum, Chen, Cazzonelli, Sharwood). $6,758,234.
3. Australian Research Council - Linkage. 2024-2027. Silicon: a novel solution to reduce water demand and pest attack. (Johnson, Chen, Carrillo, Tissue). $704,970
4. Hort Innovation Frontiers. AS23003. 2024-2029. Genetics for next generation orchards. (Cazzonelli, Tissue, Sharwood, Ghannoum). $5,493,581
5. Australian Research Council – Industrial Transformation Hub. 2024-2029. ARC Research Hub for intelligent energy efficiency in future protected cropping (Jia, Tissue, Chen, Adams, Sun, Ma, Zhang). $5,000,000.
6. Australian Research Council – Training Centre. 2024-2029. ARC Training Centre for Smart and Sustainable Horticulture. (Ghannoum, Singh, Roessner, Smith, Shabala, Tissue, etc.). $5,000,000.
7. Centre for Australia-India Relations, DFAT- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Maintri Research Grant. 2025-2018. Enhancing agribusiness and strategic policy dialogue between Australia and India. (Yadav, Singh, Maheshwari, Morrison, Varua, Tissue). $425,000.
Key Publications/Reports
1. Wu Ting, David T Tissue, Mingkai Jiang, Martijn Slot, Kristine Y Crous, Junfeng Yuan, Juxiu Liu, Shaofei Jin, Chenxi Wu, Yan Deng, Chao Huang, Fuxi Shi, Xiong Fang, Rui Li and Rong Mao. 2025. Leaf photosynthetic and respiratory thermal acclimation in terrestrial plants in response to warming: A global synthesis. Global Change Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70026
2. Huang, Ruike, Haibo Wu, Jiawei Sun, Nan Di, Jie Duan, Benye Xi, Ximeng Li, Steven Jansen, Brendan Choat, and David Tissue. 2025. Hydraulic traits are coordinated but decoupled from carbon traits in herbaceous species. Functional Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.70036
3. Zhao, Chenchen, Sachin Chavin, Rebecca K Vandegeer, Meixue Zhou, Christopher I Cazzonelli, Zhong-Hua Chen, and David T Tissue. 2025. An energy-saving glasshouse film reduced light, but elevated CO2 could not fully mitigate light-related yield losses in capsicum. Scientia Horticulturae doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2025.114215.
4. He, Jing, Chencen Liang, Zhuojia Wang, Terry Lin, Bingru Hou, Weiguang Liang, Xuping Feng, David T Tissue, Graciela Metternicht, Yi-Chen Lan, Meng Xu, and Zhong-Hua Chen. 2026. Significant boost in energy efficiency of high-tech greenhouse capsicum amid projected climate scenarios. Energy Nexus 22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nexus.2026.100700
5. Li, Yiqiao, Boyuan Zheng, Victor W. Chu, Jianlong Zhou, Fang Chen, Sachin G. Chavan, Jing He, Meng Xu, Zhong-Hua Chen, and David T Tissue. 2026. Explainable deep learning for greenhouse horticulture: feature and temporal interpretability in crop yield and energy optimization. AgriEngineering. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering8060213
6. He, Jing, Weiguang Liang, Mazadul Islam, Terry Lin, Harmanpreet Kaur, Samsul Huda, Vijay Jayasena, Talaat Ahmed, Meng Xu, David Tissue, Zhong-Hua Chen. 2026. Improved crop performance and resource use efficiency of greenhouse cucumbers through optimized potassium fertigation strategies. Scientia Horticulturae. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2026.114806