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Boosting crops’ natural capabilities could help feed a warming world
A new article in PNAS spotlights the complexities involved in engineering more resilient crops, and how RIPE researchers are finding solutions. The piece features perspectives from RIPE researchers Elizabete Carmo-Silva and Steven Burgess alongside other innovators in the field.
By: Saima Sidik || Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Stephen P. Long: Visionary, teacher, and doer
Stephen Long pioneered a multidisciplinary approach to advance our knowledge of photosynthesis, by integrating research at the molecular, cellular, organismal, and ecological levels along with a pragmatic understanding of the implications for agriculture. This involved development of new mathematical models, patented equipment for analyzing photosynthetic efficiency, and the world’s largest open-air laboratory for understanding crop responses to atmospheric change.
By: Lisa Ainsworth, Donald Ort || Carl R. Woese Institute of Genomic Biology
Tracing a path through photosynthesis to food security
The energy that plants capture from sunlight through photosynthesis provides the source of nearly all of humanity’s food. Yet the process of photosynthesis has inefficiencies that limit crop productivity, especially in a rapidly changing world. A new review by University of Illinois scientists and collaborators reflects on how improving photosynthesis can bring us closer to food security.
By: Claudia Lutz || Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
A Fluorescence-Based Transient Expression Assay for the Analysis of Upstream Open Reading Frames in Plants
Benjamin E. Haas, Faaiza Saif, Emily Bolger, Lynn Doran, Emma Rosales, Abigail Kim, Steven J. Burgess, Stephen P. Long
Plant Directhttps://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.70163
Rubisco dark inhibition in angiosperms shows a complex distribution pattern
Connor Nehls-Ramos, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Douglas J Orr
Journal of Experimental Botanyhttps://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erag090
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 PhytologistDOI: /10.1111/nph.70271