Virgo, Aurelio
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute staff
Selected Publications
Article
Winter, Klaus, Garcia, Milton, and Virgo, Aurelio. 2025. "Heat-induced F0 -fluorescence rise is not an indicator of severe tissue necrosis in thermotolerance assays of young and mature leaves of a tropical tree species, Calophyllum inophyllum ." Photosynthetica , https://doi.org/10.32615/ps.2025.004 .
2025
Winter, Klaus, Krüger Nuñez, C. R., Slot, Martijn, and Virgo, Aurelio. 2024. "In thermotolerance tests of tropical tree leaves, the chlorophyll fluorescence parameter F v / F m measured soon after heat exposure is not a reliable predictor of tissue necrosis ." Plant Biology , https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13732 .
2024
Leverett, Alistair, Hartzell, Samantha, Winter, Klaus, Garcia, Milton, Aranda, Jorge, Virgo, Aurelio, Smith, Abigail, Focht, Paulina, Rasmussen‐Arda, Adam, Willats, William G. T., Cowan‐Turner, Daniel, and Borland, Anne M. 2023. "Dissecting succulence: Crassulacean acid metabolism and hydraulic capacitance are independent adaptations in Clusia leaves ." Plant, Cell & Environment , 46, (5) 1472–1488. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14539 .
2023
Winter, Klaus, Garcia, Milton, Virgo, Aurelio, Ceballos, Jorge, and Holtum, Joseph A. M. 2021. "Does the C-4 plant Trianthema portulacastrum (Aizoaceae) exhibit weakly expressed crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)? (vol 48, pg 655, 2021) ." Functional Plant Biology , 48, (12) 1315. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP20247_CO .
2021
Slot, Martijn, Cala, Daniela, Aranda, Jorge, Virgo, Aurelio, Michaletz, Sean T., and Winter, Klaus. 2021. "Leaf heat tolerance of 147 tropical forest species varies with elevation and leaf functional traits, but not with phylogeny ." Plant Cell and Environment , https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14060 .
2021
Winter, Klaus, Virgo, Aurelio, Garcia, Milton, Aranda, Jorge, and Holtum, Joseph A. M. 2020. "Constitutive and facultative crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in Cuban oregano, Coleus amboinicus (Lamiaceae) ." Functional Plant Biology , https://doi.org/10.1071/FP20127 .
2020
Winter, Klaus, Garcia, Milton, Virgo, Aurelio, Ceballos, Jorge, and Holtum, Joseph A. M. 2020. "Does the C-4 plant Trianthema portulacastrum (Aizoaceae) exhibit weakly expressed crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)? " Functional Plant Biology , https://doi.org/10.1071/FP20247 .
2020
Winter, Klaus, Garcia, Milton, Virgo, Aurelio, and Smith, J. A. 2020. "Low-level CAM photosynthesis in a succulent-leaved member of the Urticaceae, Pilea peperomioides ." Functional Plant Biology , https://doi.org/10.1071/FP20151 .
2020
Winter, Klaus, Sage, Rowan F., Edwards, Erika J., Virgo, Aurelio, and Holtum, Joseph A. M. 2019. "Facultative Crassulacean Acid in a C3 - C4 Intermediate ." Journal of experimental botany , 70, (22) 6571–6579. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erz085 .
2019
Luján, Manuel, Aranda, Jorge, Virgo, Aurelio, and Winter, Klaus. 2018. "Clusia guabalensis (Clusiaceae), a new hemiepiphyte species with floral resins from the Atlantic wet forest in Panama ." Brittonia , 70, (4) 412–417. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-018-9538-0 .
2018
Winter, Klaus, Garcia, Milton, Virgo, Aurelio, and Holtum, Joseph A. M. 2018. "Operating at the very low end of the crassulacean acid metabolism spectrum: Sesuvium portulacastrum (Aizoaceae) ." Journal of experimental botany , 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery431 .
2018
Krause, G. Heinrich, Winter, Klaus, Krause, Barbara, and Virgo, Aurelio. 2016. "Protection by light against heat stress in leaves of tropical CAM plants containing high acid levels. " Functional Plant Biology , 43 1061–1069.
2016
Dalling, James W., Cernusak, Lucas A., Winter, Klaus, Aranda, Jorge, Garcia, Milton N., Virgo, Aurelio, Cheesman, Alexander W., Baresch, Andres, Jaramillo, Carlos A., and Turner, Benjamin L. 2016. "Two tropical conifers show strong growth and water-use efficiency responses to altered CO2 concentration ." Annals of Botany , 1113–1125. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw162 .
2016
Krause, G. Heinrich, Winter, Klaus, Krause, Barbara, and Virgo, Aurelio. 2015. "Light-stimulated heat tolerance in leaves of two neotropical tree species, Ficus insipida and Calophyllum longifolium ." Functional Plant Biology , 42 42–51. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP14095 .
2015
Beltrán, J. D., Lasso, E., Madriñán, S., Virgo, Aurelio, and Winter, Klaus. 2013. "Juvenile tank-bromeliads lacking tanks: do they engage in CAM photosynthesis? " Photosynthetica , 51, (1) 55–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11099-012-0077-8 .
2013
Krause, G. Heinrich, Cheesman, Alexander W., Winter, Klaus, Krause, Barbara, and Virgo, Aurelio. 2013. "Thermal tolerance, net CO2 exchange and growth of a tropical tree species, Ficus insipida , cultivated at elevated daytime and nighttime temperatures ." Journal of Plant Physiology , 170, (9) 822–827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2013.01.005 .
2013
Krause, G. H., Winter, Klaus, Matsubara, Shizue, Krause, Barbara, Jahns, Peter, Virgo, Aurelio, Aranda, Jorge, and Garcia, Milton N. 2012. "Photosynthesis, photoprotection, and growth of shade-tolerant tropical tree seedlings under full sunlight ." Photosynthesis Research , 113, (1-3) 273–285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-012-9731-z .
2012
Krause, G. H., Winter, Klaus, Krause, Barbara, Jahns, Peter, Garcia, Milton N., Aranda, Jorge, and Virgo, Aurelio. 2010. "High-temperature tolerance of a tropical tree, Ficus insipida: Methodological reassessment and climate change considerations ." Functional Plant Biology , 37, (9) 890–900. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP10034 .
2010
Matsubara, Shizue, Krause, G. Heinrich, Aranda, Jorge E., Virgo, Aurelio, Beisel, Kim G., Jahns, Peter, and Winter, Klaus. 2009. "Sun-shade patterns of leaf carotenoid composition in 86 species of neotropical forest plants ." Functional Plant Biology , 36, (1) 20–36. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP08214 .
2009
Cernusak, Lucas A., Winter, Klaus, Aranda, Jorge E., Virgo, Aurelio, and Garcia, Milton N. 2009. "Transpiration efficiency over an annual cycle, leaf gas exchange and wood carbon isotope ratio of three tropical tree species ." Tree Physiology , 29, (9) 1153–1161. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpp052 .
2009
Matsubara, Shizue, Krause, G. Heinrich, Seltmann, Martin, Virgo, Aurelio, Kursar, Thomas A., Jahns, Peter, and Winter, Klaus. 2008. "Lutein epoxide cycle, light harvesting and photoprotection in species of the tropical tree genus Inga ." Plant, Cell and Environment , 31, (4) 548–561. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01788.x .
2008
Krause, G. Heinrich, Jahns, Peter, Virgo, Aurelio, Garcia, Milton N., Aranda, Jorge E., Wellmann, Eckard, and Winter, Klaus. 2007. "Photoprotection, Photosynthesis and Growth of Tropical Tree Seedlings Under Near-Ambient and Strongly Reduced Solar Ultraviolet-B Radiation ." Journal of Plant Physiology , 164, (10) 1311–1322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2006.09.004 .
2007