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Elizabete Carmo-Silva in a lab

Recent review highlights key new insights in Rubisco regulation to enhance crop productivity

RIPE researcher Elizabete Carmo-Silva and others have spent decades working on ways to better regular rubisco and improve its efficiency. The highlights of that research, including the knowns and key unknowns, were published in a recent review.

Steve Long speaking on a stage with the word TED behind him

In TED Talk, Long describes three changes to photosynthesis, each boosting crop yields 20% or more

The full recording of RIPE Director Steve Long’s TED Talk, “Can we hack photosynthesis to feed the world,” about how three changes to photosynthesis could help reduce food insecurity and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is now available.

Collage of photos with Steve Long (left), Lisa Ainsworth (middle) and Tracy Lawson (right)

Three RIPE researchers recognized on 2023 ‘Highly Cited’ list

A trio of researchers for the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) Project have been named to the 2023 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list. The list recognizes research scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated exceptional influence – reflected through their publication of multiple papers frequently cited by their peers during the last decade. RIPE’s Steve Long, Lisa Ainsworth, and Tracy Lawson were all selected to this year’s list.

A drawing outlining the diffusion of H2) and CO2 inside of a leaf.

A guide to photosynthetic gas exchange measurements: Fundamental principles, best practice and potential pitfalls

Florian Busch, Lisa Ainsworth, Anna Amtmann, Amanda Cavanagh, Steven Driever, John Ferguson, Johannes Kromdijk, Tracy Lawson, Andrew Leakey, Jack Matthews, Katherine Meacham-Hensold, Richard Vath, Silvere Vialet-Chabrand, Berkley Walker, Maria Papanatsiou
Plant, Cell & Environment
http://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14815
Young Cho kneels surrounded by plants in a field trial

Reducing chlorophyll levels in seed-filling stages results in higher seed nitrogen without impacting canopy carbon assimilation

Young B. Cho, Ryan A. Boyd, Yudong Ren, Moon-Sub Lee, Sarah I. Jones, Ursula M. Ruiz-Vera, Justin M. McGrath, Michael D. Masters, Donald R. Ort
Plant, Cell & Environment
10.1111/pce.14737
Sunlight filtering through upper layers of the corn canopy.

Is chloroplast size optimal for photosynthetic efficiency?

Katarzyna Glowacka, Johannes Kromdijk, Coralie Salesse-Smith, Caitlin Smith, Steven M. Driever, Stephen Long
New Phytologist
DOI: 10.1111/nph.19091