Publications: 2025

Two cowpea Rubisco activase isoforms for crop thermotolerance

Armida Gjindali, Rhiannon Page, Catherine J. Ashton, Ingrid Robertson, Mike T. Page, Duncan Bloemers, Peter D. Gould, Dawn Worrall, Douglas J. Orr, Elizabete Carmo-Silva

New Phytologist
DOI: /10.1111/nph.70271

Needs and opportunities to future-proof crops and the use of crop systems to mitigate atmospheric change

Stephen P. Long

Philosophical Transactions B
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0229

Safeguarding crop photosynthesis in a rapidly warming world

Carl J. Bernacchi, Stephen P. Long, Donald R. Ort

Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adv5413

Widely used variants of the Farquhar-von-Caemmerer-Berry model can cause errors in parameter estimation

Edward B Lochocki , Justin M McGrath

in Silico Plants
DOI: 10.1093/insilicoplants/diaf014

Synthetic Manihot esculenta Rubisco activase proteins with increased thermotolerance identified via machine learning

Clayton Dilks, Rhiannon LaVine, Claire Buchanan, Daniel Russo, and Elizabete Carmo-Silva

microPublication Biology
DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001773

Feeding from the sun—Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security

Stephen P. Long, Yu Wang, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Amanda P. Cavanagh, Martin C. Jonikas, Johannes Kromdijk, Benedict M. Long, Amy Marshall-Colon, Diwakar Shukla, Robert H. Wilson, Xin-Guang Zhu, and Elizabeth A. Ainsworth

Cell
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.10.033

Enhancing plant resilience under combined stress: the role of reflectance spectroscopy

Jiating Li, Peng Fu, Carl J Bernacchi

Journal of Experimental Botany
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraf368

Bigger is not always better: Optimizing leaf area index with narrow leaf shape in soybean

Bishal G Tamang, Gregory Bernard, Carl J Bernacchi, Brian W Diers, Elizabeth A Ainsworth

Plant Physiology
DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiaf663

Shortcutting photorespiration: avenues and challenges toward realizing higher-yielding photorespiratory bypass crops

Katherine Meacham-Hensold, Jooyeon Jeong, Amanda P. Cavanagh, Donald R. Ort

New Phytologist
10.1111/nph.70724

Determining confidence intervals from the likelihood ratio ( ). (a–e) Likelihood ratio as each of apparent , apparent , , and apparent vary around their best-fit values, as determined by PhotoGEA for the curve in Figure 1 (designated ‘800 – wt-5 – mcgrath1’). The arrow in (d) shows a ‘kink’ where the likelihood deviates from a Gaussian distribution. The dotted line in (e) shows a Gaussian fit to the likelihood ratio near the peak. The likelihood ratio confidence interval extends to infinity but the G

PhotoGEA: An R Package for Closer Fitting of Photosynthetic Gas Exchange Data With Non-Gaussian Confidence Interval Estimation

Edward B. Lochocki, Coralie E. Salesse-Smith, Justin M. McGrath

Plant, Cell and Environment
10.1111/pce.15501

A man in a lab setting in a white lab jacket holds two large beakers with low levels of liquid. One liquid is green and the other is yellow.

Bioconversion of CO2 into valuable bioproducts via synthetic modular co-culture of engineered Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Escherichia coli

Nam Kyu Kang, Hyun Gi Koh, Yujung Choi, Hyunjun Min, Donald R. Ort, Yong-Su Jin

Metabolic Engineering
10.1016/j.ymben.2025.03.004

A sunny field of green soybean plants with a light blue sky in the background.

Variation in relaxation of non-photochemical quenchingbetween the founder genotypes of the soybean (Glycine max)nested association mapping population

Dhananjay Gotarkar, Anthony Digrado, Yu Wang, Lynn Doran, Ignacio Sparrow-Munoz, Sarah Chung, Nicholas Lisa, Farwah Wasiq, Gerardo Amaro, Bethany Blakely, Brian W. Diers, Daniel J. Eck and Steven J. Burgess

The Plant Journal
10.1111/tpj.17219