Steve Long—Ikenberry Endowed University Chair at @illinois_alma—studies how climate change impacts crops and engineers photosynthesis to feed & fuel the world.
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ALT DOE Science slide for the CABBI-CBI study, "An Orphan Gene BOOSTER Enhances Photosynthetic Efficiency and Plant Productivity."
ALT A field of two-foot-tall sorghum plants at sunset. The sky has streaks of pink and blue. Credit: Coralie Salesse-Smith
ALT Two researchers in a red jacket and blue shirt work in a field of sorghum.
ALT A field of two-foot-tall sorghum plants at sunset. The sky has streaks of pink and blue.
ALT A man in a blue shirt kneels in a field with young plants with a clear blue sky in the background.
ALT A woman surrounded by green plants holding a plant.
ALT A 3D DNA helix, two poplar trees, and an ant with magnified views of cellular structures.
ALT 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers in yellow text on a grey background. Three pictures of scientists (one man, two women) are in the middle of the page with the RIPE project logo at the bottom.
ALT A red headed woman on the left and a man in a hat on the right work in a field with young green plants and brown dirt.
ALT An ancestral soybean plant. It is a darker shade of green and has more pointed leaves than the modern soybean plant.
ALT A row of green modern soybean plants in a greenhouse.
ALT Two pictures side-by-side. The left picture is of Tracy Lawson in a lab coat taking a measurement. The right picture is Andrew Leakey smiling in an office.
ALT Green leaves from a plant in the foreground with a white machine behind the leaves in the top left with a blue sky in the background. The top right says Join Our Team in green letters.
ALT Carl Bernacchi standing next to a camera at torso level in a field with corn in the background.
ALT An overhead shot of two people working in a field with rows of green plants.
ALT A stack of lumpy blobs with four different colors representing different parts of the protein. The predicted molecular structure of the mutant form of BCT1 the researchers evolved for function in plants. Each color represents a subunit of the four-component pumping system. The mutant form has fused the blue-colored subunits and enabled the pump to work without the need to switch it 'on’. Figure generated by Loraine Rourke, ANU.
ALT in silico Plant's 2023 impact factor is 2.6. This ranks us Q1 in Agronomy and Q2 in Plant Sciences and Mathematical & Computational Biology
ALT Image: This award-winning image by Brandon James, Project Manager in the Swaminathan lab at the HudsonAlpha Institute, shows a thin slice of part of a Sorghum bicolor shoot apex. The fluorescent probes show cells in the shoot (nuclei labeled in blue) and the expression of RNA transcripts of a gene called KNAT1 (yellow). This is part of work by CABBI and its partners to better understand different cell types within sorghum stems and enable cell-type-specific engineering for bioenergy and novel bioproducts. Credit: Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI)
ALT A woman wearing sunglasses surrounded by tall green plants holding a green plant.
ALT A zoomed in picture of a green stalk of rice.
ALT Tracy Lawson