Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency is an international research project that engineers crops to turn sunlight into food more efficiently.
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ALT A woman in a lab coat smiles while taking a measurement of leaves with a device.
ALT DOE science slide for the CABBI study, "Adapting C4 Photosynthesis to Atmospheric Change and Increasing Productivity by Elevating Rubisco Content in Sorghum and Sugarcane."
ALT A field of crops showing a side view of 4 of the 24 four-row plots of the four sorghum genotypes tested at boot stage in the field in Urbana, Illinois summer 2023.
ALT A sunny field of green soybean plants with a light blue sky in the background.
ALT A woman in a lab space works with a pipette. Her arms are under a protective bar and she is surrounded by standard lab equipment.
ALT A close-up picture of a soybean plant’s leaves.
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ALT A cartoon yellow potato has had its skin peeled to form a bikini. It is wearing sunglasses and lounging on an orange beach chair, its arms folded behind its head. The peeled skin lays nearby in a coil. The chair is in the sand with the ocean and sun in the background.
ALT Two pictures side-by-side. The left picture is of a woman wearing sunglasses holding a leafy green plant surrounded by green plants tall enough to reach her waist. The photo on the right is a woman in a lab coat sitting slightly behind a plant and an instrument measuring the plant.
ALT A small, white machine takes a measurement of a green leaf surrounded by other leaves. White text in the bottom right says Join Our Team!
ALT A collage of eight pictures of women scientists against a background of green. There is a yellow block in the center with dark green text reading Women move science forward. Under the text is the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency Project logo.
ALT Two men kneeling on the ground in a field with small plants around them.
ALT The front cover of a magazine showing a cell. The words Biomarker Magazine Volume 18 appear in the middle left of the cover. Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology appears in the bottom right.
ALT A magazine is open to a page with the headline RIPE team models connection between enzyme activity and yields for the first time. Then there is text in the middle of the page and the bottom of the page is a picture of a soybean field at dusk.
ALT A magazine being held open. The left side has a headline that says Improving crop yields and a page of text. The right side of the magazine is a picture of two people kneeling in a field with young plants.
ALT Green box with a picture of a young man in a blue shirt in the middle. Above the picture is the RIPE logo and the words Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency. Below the picture it says David Hong, RIPE Fall 2024 Science Communication Intern.
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