Publications
Multiscale computational models can guide experimentation and targeted measurements for crop improvement
Bedrich Benes, Kaiyu Guan, Meagan Lang, Stephen P. Long, Jonathan P. Lynch, Amy Marshall‐Colón, Bin Peng, James Schnable, Lee Sweetlove, and Matthew Turk
The Plant Journal
Civil disobedience movements such as School Strike for the Climate are raising public awareness of the climate change emergency
Stephen J. Thackeray, Sharon A. Robinson, Pete Smith, Rhea Bruno, Miko U. F. Kirschbaum, Carl Bernacchi, Maria Byrne, William Cheung, M. Francesca Cotrufo, Phillip Gienapp, Sue Hartley, Ivan Janssens, T. Hefin Jones, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Yiqi Luo, Josep Penuelas, Rowan Sage, David J. Suggett, Danielle Way, and Steve Long
Global Change Biology
Field-grown tobacco plants maintain robust growth while accumulating large quantities of a bacterial cellulase in chloroplasts
Jennifer Schmidt, Justin McGrath, Maureen Hanson, Stephen Long, and Beth Ahner
Nature Plants
Are we approaching a water ceiling to maize yields in the United States?
Evan H. DeLucia, Shiliu Chen, Kaiyu Guan, Bin Peng, Yan Li, Nuria Gomez‐Casanovas, Ilsa B. Kantola, Carl J. Bernacchi, Yuefei Huang, Stephen P. Long, and Donald R. Ort
Ecosphere
Making our plant modelling community more than the sum of its parts: a personal perspective
Stephen P. Long
in silico Plants
Genome-wide association and genomic prediction for biomass yield in a genetically diverse Miscanthus sinensis germplasm panel phenotyped at five locations in Asia and North America
Lindsay V. Clark, Maria S. Dwiyanti, Kossonou G. Anzoua, Joe E. Brummer, Bimal Kumar Ghimire Katarzyna Głowacka, Megan Hall, Kweon Heo, Xiaoli Jin, Alexander E. Lipka, Junhua Peng, Toshihiko Yamada, Ji Hye Yoo, Chang Yeon Yu, Hua Zhao, Stephen P. Long, and Erik J. Sacks
GCB Bioenergy
Predicting light-induced stomatal movements based on the redox state of plastoquinone: theory and validation
Johannes Kromdijk, Katarzyna Głowacka, and Stephen P. Long
Photosynthesis Research
Biomass yield in a genetically diverse Miscanthus sinensis germplasm panel evaluated at five locations revealed individuals with exceptional potential
Lindsay V. Clark, Maria S. Dwiyanti, Kossonou G. Anzoua, Joe E. Brummer, Bimal Kumar Ghimire, Katarzyna Głowacka, Megan Hall, Kweon Heo, Xiaoli Jin, Alexander E. Lipka, Junhua Peng, Toshihiko Yamada, Ji Hye Yoo, Chang Yeon Yu, Hua Zhao, Stephen P. Long, and Erik J. Sacks
GCB Bioenergy
Winter hardiness of Miscanthus (III): Genome-wide association and genomic prediction for overwintering ability in Miscanthus sinensi
Hongxu Dong, Lindsay V. Clark, Alexander E. Lipka, Joe E. Brummer, Katarzyna Głowacka, Megan C. Hall, Kweon Heo, Xiaoli Jin, Junhua Peng, Toshihiko Yamada, Bimal Kumar Ghimire, Ji Hye Yoo, Chang Yeon Yu, Hua Zhao, Stephen P. Long, and Erik J. Sacks
GCB Bioenergy
Winter hardiness of Miscanthus (III): Genome‐wide association and genomic prediction for overwintering ability in Miscanthus sinensis
Hongxu Dong, Lindsay V. Clark, Alexander E. Lipka, Joe E. Brummer, Katarzyna Głowacka, Megan C. Hall, Kweon Heo, Xiaoli Jin, Junhua Peng, Toshihiko Yamada, Bimal Kumar Ghimire, Ji Hye Yoo, Chang Yeon Yu, Hua Zhao, Stephen P. Long, and Erik J. Sacks
Global Change Biology Bioenergy
Siberian Miscanthus sacchariflorus accessions surpass the exceptional chilling tolerance of the most widely cultivated clone of Miscanthus x giganteus
Charles P. Pignon, Idan Spitz, Erik J. Sacks, Uffe Jørgensen, Kirsten Kørup, and Stephen P. Long
GCB Bioenergy
Bundle sheath chloroplast volume can house sufficient Rubisco to avoid limiting C4 photosynthesis during chilling
Charles P. Pignon, Marjorie R. Lundgren, Colin P. Osborne, and Stephen P. Long
Journal of Experimental Botany
Population structure of Miscanthus sacchariflorus reveals two major polyploidization events, tetraploid-mediated unidirectional introgression from diploid M. sinensis, and diversity centred around the Yellow Seas
Lindsay V. Clark, Xiaoli Jin, Karen Koefoed Peterse, Kossanou G. Anzoua, Larissa Bagmet, Pavel Chebukin, Martin Deuter, Elena Dzyubenko, Nicolay Dzyubenko, Kweon Heo, Douglas A. Johnson, Uffe Jørgensen, Jens Bonderup Kjeldsen, Hironori Nagano, Junhua Peng, Andrey Sabitov, Toshihiko Yamada, Ji Hye Yoo, Chang Yeon Yu, Stephen P. Long, and Erik J. Sacks
Annals of Botany
Phenotyping photosynthesis on the limit – a critical examination of RACiR
Samuel H. Taylor and Stephen P. Long
New Phytologist
Biorefinery for combined production of jet fuel and ethanol from lipid‐producing sugarcane: a techno‐economic evaluation
Deepak Kumar, Stephen P. Long, and Vijay Singh
GCB Bioenergy
Photosystem II Subunit S overexpression increases the efficiency of water use in a field-grown crop
Katarzyna Głowacka, Johannes Kromdijk, Katherine Kucera, Jiayang Xie, Amanda P. Cavanagh, Lauriebeth Leonelli, Andrew D. B. Leakey, Donald R. Ort, Krishna K. Niyogi, and Stephen P. Long
Nature Communications
Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security
David J. Beerling, Jonathan R. Leake, Stephen P. Long, Julie D. Scholes, Jurriaan Ton, Paul N. Nelson, Michael Bird, Euripides Kantzas, Lyla L. Taylor, Binoy Sarkar, Mike Kelland, Evan DeLucia, Ilsa Kantola, Christoph Müller, Greg Rau, and James Hansen
Nature Plants
Toward improving photosynthesis in cassava: Characterizing photosynthetic limitations in four current African cultivars
Amanda P. De Souza and Stephen P. Long
Food and Energy Security
BETYdb: a yield, trait, and ecosystem service database applied to second-generation bioenergy feedstock production
David LeBauer, Rob Kooper, Patrick Mulrooney, Scott Rohde, Dan Wang, Stephen P. Long, and Michael C. Dietze
GCB Bioenergy
Biorefinery for combined production of jet fuel and ethanol from lipid-producing sugarcane: a techno-economic evaluation
Deepak Kumar, Stephen P. Long, and Vijay Singh
GCB Bioenergy
Brazilian sugarcane ethanol as an expandable green alternative to crude oil use
Deepak Jaiswal, Amanda P. De Souza, Søren Larsen, David S. LeBauer, Fernando E. Miguez, Gerd Sparovek, Germán Bollero, Marcos S. Buckeridge, and Stephen P. Long
Nature Climate Change
Slow induction of photosynthesis on shade to sun transitions in wheat may cost at least 21% of productivity
Samuel H. Taylor and Stephen P. Long
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2017 372 20160543
Development of a three-dimensional ray-tracing model of sugarcane canopy photosynthesis and its application in assessing impacts of varied row spacing
Yu Wang, Qingfeng Song, Deepak Jaiswal, Amanda P. de Souza, Stephen Patrick Long, and Xin-Guang Zhu
Bioenergy Research
The role of sink strength and nitrogen availability in the down-regulation of photosynthetic capacity in field-grown Nicotiana tabacum L. at elevated CO2 concentration
Ursula M. Ruiz-Vera, Amanda P. De Souza, Stephen P. Long, and Donald R. Ort
Frontiers in Plant Science
Development of a three-dimensional ray-tracing model of sugarcane canopy photosynthesis and its application in assessing impacts of varied row spacing
Yu Wang, Qingfeng Song, Deepak Jaiswal, Amanda P. de Souza, Stephen Patrick Long, and Xin-Guang Zhu
Bioenergy Research
Evaluation of the quantity and composition of sugars and lipid in the juice and bagasse of lipid producing sugarcane
Haibo Huang, Robert A. Moreau, Michael J. Powell, Zhaoqin Wang, Baskaran Kannan, Fredy Altpeter, Aleel K. Grennan, Stephen P. Long, and Vijay Singh
Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology
Enhancing soybean photosynthetic CO2 assimilation using a cyanobacterial membrane protein, ictB
William T. Hay, Saadia Bihmidine, Nedim Mutlu, Khang Le Hoang, Tala Awada, Donald P. Weeks, Tom E. Clemente, and Stephen P. Long
Journal of Plant Physiology, 212, 58-68.
Potential of global croplands and bioenergy crops for climate change mitigation through deployment for enhanced weathering
Ilsa B. Kantola, Michael D. Masters, David J. Beerling, Stephen P. Long, and Evan H. DeLucia
Biology Letters
Loss of photosynthetic efficiency in the shade. An Achilles heel for the dense modern stands of our most productive C4 crops?
Charles P. Pignon, Deepak Jaiswal, Justin M. McGrath, and Stephen P. Long
Journal of Experimental Botany
Expression of cyanobacterial FBP/SBPase in soybean prevents yield depression under future climate conditions
Iris H. Köhler, Ursula M. Ruiz-Vera, Andy VanLoocke, Michell L. Thomey, Tom Clemente, Stephen P. Long, Donald R. Ort, and Carl J. Bernacchi
Journal of Experimental Botany
Decreasing, not increasing, leaf area will raise crop yields under global atmospheric change
Venkatraman Srinivasan, Praveen Kumar, and Stephen P. Long
Global Change Biology
Improving photosynthesis and crop productivity by accelerating recovery from photoprotection
Johannes Kromdijk, Katarzyna Głowacka, Lauriebeth Leonelli, Stéphane T. Gabilly, Masakazu Iwai, Krishna K. Niyogi, and Stephen P. Long
Science
Intensifying drought eliminates the expected benefits of elevated carbon dioxide for soybean
Sharon B. Gray, Orla Dermody, Stephanie P. Klein, Anna M. Locke, Justin M. McGrath, Rachel E. Paul, David M. Rosenthal, Ursula M. Ruiz-Vera, Matthew H. Siebers, Reid Strellner, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Carl J. Bernacchi, Stephen P. Long, Donald R. Ort, and Andrew D. B. Leakey
Nature Plants
Rooting for cassava: Insights on photosynthesis and associated physiology as a route to improve yield potential
Amanda P. De Souza, Lynnicia N. Massenburg, Deepak Jaiswal, Siyuan Cheng, Rachel Shekar, and Stephen P. Long
New Phytologist
Factors underlying genotypic differences in the induction of photosynthesis in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.].
Mochamad Arief Soleh, Yu Tanaka, Yuko Nomoto, Yu Iwahashi, Keiichiro Nakashima, Yasuko Fukuda, Stephen P. Long, and Tatsuhiko Shiraiwa
Plant, Cell & Environment
One crop breeding cycle from starvation? How engineering crop photosynthesis for rising CO2 and temperature could be one important route to alleviation.
Johannes Kromdijk and Stephen P. Long
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Techno‐economic analysis of biodiesel and ethanol co‐production from lipid‐producing sugarcane
Haibo Huang, Stephen Long, and Vijay Singh
Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining
High C3 photosynthetic capacity and high intrinsic water use efficiency underlies the high productivity of the bioenergy grass Arundo donax
Richard J. Webster, Steven M. Driever, Johannes Kromdijk, Justin McGrath, Andrew D. B. Leakey, Katharina Siebke, Tanvir Demetriades-Shah, Steve Bonnage, Tony Peloe, Tracy Lawson, and Stephen P. Long
Scientific Reports
Impacts of a 32-billion-gallon bioenergy landscape on land and fossil fuel use in the US
Tara W. Hudiburg, WeiWei Wang, Madhu Khanna, Stephen P. Long, Puneet Dwivedi, William J. Parton, Melannie Hartman, and Evan H. DeLucia
Nature Energy
An evaluation of new and established methods to determine T-DNA copy number and homozygosity in transgenic plants
Katarzyna Głowacka, Johannes Kromdijk, Lauriebeth Leonelli, Krishna K. Niyogi, Tom E. Clemente, and Stephen P. Long
Plant, Cell & Environment
Pharaoh's dream revisited: An Integrated US Midwest field research network for climate adaptation
David Gustafson, Michael Hayes, Emily Janssen, David B. Lobell, Stephen Long, Gerald C. Nelson, Himadri B. Pakrasi, Peter Raven, G. Philip Robertson, Richard Robertson, and Donald Wuebbles
BioScience
Biogeochemical consequences of regional land use change to a biofuel crop in the southeastern United States
Benjamin D. Duval, Melannie Hartman, Ernest Marx, William J. Parton, Stephen P. Long, and Evan H. DeLucia
Ecosphere
An analysis of ozone damage to historical maize and soybean yields in the United States
Justin M. McGrath, Amy M. Betzelberger, Shaowen Wang, Eric Shook, Xin-Guang Zhu, Stephen P. Long, and Elizabeth A. Ainsworth
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Comparing predicted yield and yield stability of willow and Miscanthus across Denmark
Søren Larsen, Deepak Jaiswal, Niclas S. Bentsen, Dan Wang, and Stephen P. Long
GCB Bioenergy
Plants in silico: why, why now and what? — An integrative platform for plant systems biology research
Xin‐Guang Zhu, Jonathan P. Lynch, David S. LeBauer, Andrew J. Millar, Mark Stitt, and Stephen P. Long
Plant, Cell & Environment
Factors underlying genotypic differences in the induction of photosynthesis in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]
Mochamad Arief Soleh, Yu Tanaka, Yuko Nomoto, Yu Iwahashi, Keiichiro Nakashima, Yasuko Fukuda, Stephen P. Long, and Tatsuhiko Shiraiwa
Plant, Cell & Environment
A physiological and biophysical model of coppice willow (Salix spp.) production yields for the contiguous USA in current and future climate scenarios
Dan Wang, Deepak Jaiswal, David S. Lebauer, Timothy M. Wertin, Germán A. Bollero, Andrew D. B. Leakey, and Stephen P. Long
Plant, Cell & Environment
Biomass feedstock preprocessing and long‐distance transportation logistics
Tao Lin, Luis F. Rodríguez, Sarah Davis, Madhu Khanna, Yogendra Shastri, Tony Grift, Steve Long, and K. C. Ting
GCB Bioenergy
Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand
Donald R. Ort, Sabeeha S. Merchant, Jean Alric, Alice Barkan, Robert E. Blankenship, Ralph Bock, Roberta Croce, Maureen R. Hanson, Julian M. Hibberd, Stephen P. Long, Thomas A. Moore, James Moroney, Krishna K. Niyogi, Martin A. J. Parry, Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya, Roger C. Prince, Kevin E. Redding, Martin H. Spalding, Klaas J. van Wijk, Wim F. J. Vermaas, Susanne von Caemmerer, Andreas P. M. Weber, Todd O. Yeates, Joshua S. Yuan, and Xin Guang Zhu
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Climate-smart agriculture and forestry: maintaining plant productivity in a changing world while minimizing production system effects on climate
Danielle A. Way and Stephen P. Long
Plant, Cell & Environment
Can chilling tolerance of C4 photosynthesis in Miscanthus be transferred to sugarcane?
Katarzyna Głowacka, Aasifuddin Ahmed, Shailendra Sharma, Tom Abbott, Jack C. Comstock, Stephen P. Long, and Erik J. Sacks
GCB Bioenergy
Environment has little effect on biomass biochemical composition of Miscanthus x giganteus across soil types, nitrogen fertilization, and times of harvest
Rebecca A. Arundale, Stefan Bauer, Fernanda B. Haffner, Valerie D. Mitchell, Thomas B. Voigt, and Stephen P. Long
BioEnergy Research
Toward systems-level analysis of agricultural production from crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM): scaling from cell to commercial production
Sarah C. Davis, Ray Ming, David S. LeBauer, and Stephen P. Long
New Phytologist
Meeting the Global Food Demand of the Future by Engineering Crop Photosynthesis and Yield Potential
Stephen P. Long, Amy Marshall-Colon, and Xin-Guang Zhu
Cell
Cost of abating greenhouse gas emissions with cellulosic ethanol
Puneet Dwivedi, Weiwei Wang, Tara Hudiburg, Deepak Jaiswal, William Parton, Stephen Long, Evan DeLucia, and Madhu Khanna
Environmental Science & Technology
BSD2 is a Rubisco‐specific assembly chaperone, forms intermediary hetero‐oligomeric complexes, and is nonlimiting to growth in tobacco
Brendon Conlan, Rosemary Birch, Celine Kelso, Sophie Holland, Amanda P. De Souza, Stephen P. Long, Jennifer L. Beck, and Spencer M. Whitney
Plant, Cell & Environment
Can the exceptional chilling tolerance of C4 photosynthesis found in Miscanthus x giganteus be exceeded? Screening of a novel Miscanthus Japanese germplasm collection
Katarzyna Głowacka, Uffe Jørgensen, Jens B. Kjeldsen, Kirsten Kørup, Idan Spitz, Erik J. Sacks, and Stephen P. Long
Annals of Botany
