Publications
![Comparing Ammonium uptake from the soil to relative growth rate](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-09/NewPhytologist83023_taller_web.png?itok=wd7siJHL)
A genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of soybean Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens reveals the cost-benefit of nitrogen fixation
Bethany Holland, Megan Matthews, Pedro Bota, Lee Sweetlove, Steve Long, George diCenzo
New Phytologist
![The sun showing through corn stalks.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-09/Glowacka.jpg?itok=9P4JJrxU)
Is choloroplast size optimal for photosynthetic efficiency?
Katarzyna Głowacka, Johannes Kromdijk, Coralie E. Salesse-Smith, Cailin Smith, Steven M. Driever, Stephen P. Long
New Phytologist
![Measurements of the taquilana plant](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-09/Tequilana_web.png?itok=-0DMnguE)
Rethinking the potential productivity of crassulacean acidmetabolism by integrating metabolic dynamics with shoot architecture, using the example of Agave tequilana
Yu Wang, J. Andrew C. Smith, Xin-Guang Zhu, Steve Long
New Phytologist
![Photos of Miscanthus growing in the five trial sites showing both an overview of the field trial and a section of the field that captures the diversity in the genotypes.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/gcbb13043-fig-0003-m_WEB.jpg?itok=JN7TEUQ_)
Biomass yield in a genetically diverse miscanthus sacchariflorus germplasm panel phenotyped at five locations in Asia, North America, and Europe
Joyce N. Njuguna, Lindsay V. Clark, Kossonou G. Anzoua, Larisa Bagmet, Pavel Chebukin, Maria S. Dwiyanti, Elena Dzyubenko, Nicolay Dzyubenko, Bimal Kumar Ghimire, Xiaoli Jin, Douglas A. Johnson, Uffe Jørgensen, Jens Bonderup Kjeldsen, Hironori Nagano, Junhua Peng, Karen Koefoed Petersen, Andrey Sabitov, Eun Soo Seong, Toshihiko Yamada, Ji Hye Yoo, Chang Yeon Yu, Hua Zhao, Stephen P. Long, & Erik J. Sacks
GCB Bioenergy
![Long Lab Logo, beaker with a plant, sun, and field on the inside. Words: Long Lab Engineering Photosynthesis to Feed and Fuel the World.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/0_LongLabLogo_Web_5.png?itok=uojssLEe)
An efficient indirect plant regeneration from shoot apical meristem (SAM) derived embryogenic callus of miscanthus giganteus
Karolina Sobańska, Piotr Jedryszek, Cameron Kern, Aneta Basińska-Barczak, Tomasz Pniewski, & Stephen P. Long
Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology
![Measured carbon isotope discrimination during photosynthetic induction of sorghum.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/24_leakiness_WEB.jpg?itok=it4fUf-t)
Increased bundle‐sheath leakiness of co2 during photosynthetic induction shows a lack of coordination between the C4 and C3 cycles
Yu Wang, Samantha S. Stutz, Carl J. Bernacchi, Ryan A. Boyd, Donald R. Ort, Stephen P. Long
New Phytologist
![a, Rubisco activation state measured in vitro. b, Maximum Rubisco carboxylation rate modelled from gas exchange The response of components of Rubisco activation state are shown using equivalence plots for steady-state. c,d.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/NaturePlantsFaster_WEB.png?itok=Det7YG2r)
Rubisco deactivation in shade reduces cowpea photosynthetic potential in variable light conditions
Samuel H. Taylor, Emmanuel Gonzalez-Escobar, Rhiannon Page, Martin A. J. Parry, Stephen P. Long & Elizabete Carmo-Silva
Nature Plants
![Light in the soybean canopy](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/Light%20in%20soybean%20canopy_1_Horizontal_WEB.jpg?itok=-C_J5NKE)
Soybean photosynthesis and crop yield are improved by accelerating recovery from photoprotection
Amanda P. De Souza, Steven J. Burgess, Lynn Doran, Jeffrey Hansen, Lusya Manukyan, Nina Maryn, Dhananjay Gotarkar, Lauriebeth Leonelli, Krishna K. Niyogi, Stephen P. Long
Science
![Weather data for 2018 and 2020.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/23_Hexo_WEB.jpg?itok=dTJpbJSN)
Guard-cell-targeted overexpression of Arabidopsis Hexokinase 1 can improve water use efficiency in field-grown tobacco plants
Liana G Acevedo-Siaca, Katarzyna Głowacka, Steven M Driever, Coralie E Salesse-Smith, Nitsan Lugassi, David Granot, Stephen P Long, & Johannes Kromdijk
Journal of Experimental Botany
![Long Lab Logo, beaker with a plant, sun, and field on the inside. Words: Long Lab Engineering Photosynthesis to Feed and Fuel the World.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/0_LongLabLogo_Web_2.png?itok=Z9tjEH4H)
Improving crop yield potential
Alexandra J. Burgess, Céline Masclaux-Daubresse, Günter Strittmatter, Andreas P. M. Weber, Samuel Harry Taylor, Jeremy Harbinson, Xinyou Yin, Stephen Long, Matthew J. Paul, Peter Westhoff, Francesco Loreto, Aldo Ceriotti, Vandasue L. R. Saltenis, Mathias Pribil, Philippe Nacry, Lars B. Scharff, Poul Erik Jensen, Bertrand Muller, Jean-Pierre Cohan, John Foulkes, Peter Rogowsky, Philippe Debaeke, Christian Meyer, Hilde Nelissen, Dirk Inzé, René Klein Lankhorst, Martin A. J. Parry, Erik H. Murchie, Alexandra Baekelandt
Food and Energy Security
![Long Lab Logo, beaker with a plant, sun, and field on the inside. Words: Long Lab Engineering Photosynthesis to Feed and Fuel the World.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/0_LongLabLogo_Web_3.png?itok=qrLOyGKY)
Into the shadows and back into sunlight: Photosynthesis in fluctuating light
Stephen P. Long, Samuel H. Taylor, Steven J. Burgess, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Tracy Lawson, Amanda P. De Souza, Lauriebeth Leonelli, and Yu Wang
Annual Review of Plant Biology
![CO2 uptake (A) response to change in light (PPFD) in ictB tobacco transformants (ictB1, ictB3, ictB4, and ictB6) and wild-type (WT) tobacco. The light response curves were measured in ambient [CO2] conditions.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/21_wild_PAYCLOSEATTENTION_WEB.jpg?itok=7-8tiBBy)
Field-grown ictB tobacco transformants show no difference in photosynthetic efficiency for biomass relative to the wild type
Ursula M Ruiz-Vera, Liana G Acevedo-Siaca, Kenny L Brown, Chidi Afamefule, Hussein Gherli, Andrew J Simkin, Stephen P Long, Tracy Lawson, & Christine A Raines
Journal of Experimental Botany
![Long Lab Logo, beaker with a plant, sun, and field on the inside. Words: Long Lab Engineering Photosynthesis to Feed and Fuel the World.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/0_LongLabLogo_Web_4.png?itok=YpFIuyHE)
Assessing heritability of biochemical limitations in photosynthesis can help elucidate new targets for improvement
Liana G. Acevedo-Siaca & Stephen P. Long
Plant Breeding
![Experiment design comparing the control, one-way, and two-way simulations using the climate (CWRF) and crop (BioCro) stand-alone and coupled models.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/18_Perennial_WEB.png?itok=_uo3Rctd)
Perennial biomass crops on marginal land improve both regional climate and agricultural productivity
Yufeng He, Deepak Jaiswal, Xin-Zhong Liang, Chao Sun, & Stephen P. Long
GCB Bioenergy
![Hierarchical (multi-level) representation of observed yield by study, location, and year](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/17_responsive_WEB.jpg?itok=00fdLPgc)
Responsiveness of miscanthus and switchgrass yields to stand age and nitrogen fertilization: A meta‐regression analysis
Bijay P. Sharma, Na Zhang, DoKyoung Lee, Emily Heaton, Evan H. Delucia, Erik J. Sacks, Ilsa B. Kantola, Nicholas N. Boersma, Stephen P. Long, Thomas B. Voigt, Madhu Khanna
GCB Bioenergy
![Figure 1. (A) Schematic diagram illustrating the process of acquiring a car by choosing parts from a catalogue, supplying additional specifications and sending this information to a factory where dedicated experts take care of fabrication and assembly. (B) Analogous schematic diagram illustrating the process of running a crop growth simulation by choosing equations from a library, supplying additional specifications and sending this information to the BioCro engine, which solves the model.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/14_software_WEB.jpg?itok=1PxJ_oNG)
BioCro II: a software package for modular crop growth simulations
Edward B Lochocki, Scott Rohde, Deepak Jaiswal, Megan L Matthews, Fernando Miguez, Stephen P Long, Justin M McGrath
in silico Plants
![Cowpea plants in a field on a sunny day](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-09/FickleSunshine_Web.jpg?itok=dMySVOm5)
Faster than expected Rubisco deactivation in shade reduces cowpea photosynthetic potential in variable light conditions
Samuel Tayor, Emmanuel Gonzalez-Escobar, Rhiannon Page, Martin Parry, Steve Long, Elizabete Carmo-Silva
Nature Plants
![Predicted and experimental (A–D) leaf, (E–H) stem and (I–L) pod biomasses over the 2002 and 2004–06 growing seasons under ambient (372 ppm) and elevated (550 ppm) atmospheric [CO2].](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/13_mechanistic_WEB.jpg?itok=eJoWEU6S)
Soybean-BioCro: a semi-mechanistic model of soybean growth
Megan L Matthews, Amy Marshall-Colón, Justin M McGrath, Edward B Lochocki, Stephen P Long
in silico Plants
![The tightly coupled ordinary differential equation (ODE)–flux balance analysis (FBA) model.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/12_constraint_WEB.jpg?itok=xu90CPEw)
A hybrid kinetic and constraint‐based model of leaf metabolism allows predictions of metabolic fluxes in different environments
Sanu Shameer, Yu Wang, Pedro Bota, R. George Ratcliffe, Stephen P. Long, & Lee J. Sweetlove
The Plant Journal
![Long Lab Logo, beaker with a plant, sun, and field on the inside. Words: Long Lab Engineering Photosynthesis to Feed and Fuel the World.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/0_LongLabLogo_Web_1.png?itok=KpgEopl1)
Essential outcomes for COP26
Pete Smith, Linda Beaumont, Carl J. Bernacchi, Maria Byrne, William Cheung, Richard T. Conant, Francesca Cotrufo, Xiaojuan Feng, Ivan Janssens, Hefin Jones, Miko U. F. Kirschbaum, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Julie LaRoche, Yiqi Luo, Andrew McKechnie, Josep Penuelas, Shilong Piao, Sharon Robinson, Rowan F. Sage, David J. Sugget, Stephen J. Thackeray, Danielle Way, & Stephen P. Long
Global Change Biology
![Conceptual illustration of positive response in plants to drought priming and stress.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/15_Drought_WEB.jpg?itok=xbklJL6-)
Drought imprints on crops can reduce yield loss: Nature's insights for food security
Peng Fu, Deepak Jaiswal, Justin M. McGrath, Shaowen Wang, Stephen P. Long, Carl J. Bernacchi
Food and Energy Security
![Long Lab Logo, beaker with a plant, sun, and field on the inside. Words: Long Lab Engineering Photosynthesis to Feed and Fuel the World.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/0_LongLabLogo_Web_0.png?itok=Y5215we1)
Evaluating natural variation, heritability, and genetic advance of photosynthetic traits in rice (oryza sativa)
Liana G. Acevedo-Siaca, Robert Coe, W. Paul Quick, & Stephen P. Long
Plant Breeding
![Schematic of gsthermal analysis method, where gsthermal is a proxy for stomatal conductance to water vapor (gs) that is derived from thermal imaging](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/11_Thermal_PAYATTENTION_WEB.jpg?itok=xlDfyjau)
Phenotyping stomatal closure by thermal imaging for GWAS and TWAS of water use efficiency-related genes
Charles P Pignon, Samuel B Fernandes, Ravi Valluru, Nonoy Bandillo, Roberto Lozano, Edward Buckler, Michael A Gore, Stephen P Long, Patrick J Brown, & Andrew Leakey
Plant Physiology
![Total lipid biomass compared to biomass type](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/7_relaxometry_WEB.jpg?itok=TM-5zNzg)
Development and validation of time‐domain 1H‐NMR relaxometry correlation for high‐throughput phenotyping method for lipid contents of lignocellulosic feedstocks
Shraddha Maitra, Bruce Dien, Stephen P. Long, Vijay Singh
GCB Bioenergy
![Long Lab logo](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2024-02/0_LongLabLogo_Web.png?itok=4ABz-FdS)
Techno-economic feasibility analysis of engineered energycane-based biorefinery co-producing biodiesel and ethanol
Deepak Kumar, Stephen P, Long, Amit Arora, Vijay Singh
GCB Bioenergy
![Schematic diagram of biorefineries producing ethanol and biodiesel from energycane for two scenarios: (i) bagasse burnt to produce steam and electricity and (ii) bagasse converted to cellulosic ethanol](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/10_biorefinery_WEB.jpg?itok=tusdFpaU)
Techno‐economic feasibility analysis of engineered energycane‐based Biorefinery Co‐producing biodiesel and ethanol
Deepak Kumar, Stephen P. Long, Amit Arora, Vijay Singh
GCB Bioenergy
![Metabolic model schematic of C4 photosynthesis.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/8_Dynamic_WEB.jpg?itok=yinz4P3j)
Towards a dynamic photosynthesis model to guide yield improvement in C4 crops
Yu Wang, Kher Xing Chan, Stephen P. Long
The Plant Journal
![Intrinsic water- use efficiency (iWUE = A/gs) over time during photosynthetic induction (the transition from low light (50 μmol m−2 s−1) to high light (1,500 μmol m−2 s−1) and photosynthetic relaxation (the transition from high light to low light).](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/9_induction_WEB.jpg?itok=PK3HrrGR)
Dynamics of photosynthetic induction and relaxation within the canopy of rice and two wild relatives
Liana G. Acevedo-Siaca, Jacqueline Dionora, Rebecca Laza, William Paul Quick, & Stephen P. Long
Food and Energy Security
![Height as a fraction of canopy top by fraction of light at a canopy surface graph.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/5-ameliorate_PAYATTENTION_web.jpg?itok=ee0-dyGk)
Can improved canopy light transmission ameliorate loss of photosynthetic efficiency in the shade? An investigation of natural variation in Sorghum bicolor
Nikhil S Jaikumar, Samantha S Stutz, Samuel B Fernandes, Andrew D B Leakey, Carl J Bernacchi, Patrick J Brown, Stephen P Long
Journal of Experimental Botany
![Photosynthesis by bioengineered resource-efficient, high-yielding crop varieties cultivated using advanced agronomic practices increase food production, and soil organic carbon storage is enhanced by deep recalcitrant roots.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/3-DeliverFood_WEB.png?itok=6ZXP1n9m)
Technologies to deliver food and climate security through agriculture
Peter Horton, Stephen P. Long, Pete Smith, Steven A. Banwart & David J. Beerling
Nature Plants
![The impacts of reducing light intensity on the North China Plain.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/6_particulate_WEB.jpg?itok=ZE95Un0u)
Temporal variability in the impacts of particulate matter on crop yields on the North China Plain
Michael C. Wolffe, Oliver Wild, Stephen P. Long, Kirsti Ashworth
Science of The Total Environment
![Long Lab Logo, beaker with a plant, sun, and field on the inside. Words: Long Lab Engineering Photosynthesis to Feed and Fuel the World.](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/0_LongLabLogo_Web.png?itok=fSIgFHHt)
Variation between rice accessions in photosynthetic induction in flag leaves and underlying mechanisms
Liana G Acevedo-Siaca, Robert Coe, W Paul Quick, Stephen P Long
Journal of Experimental Botany
![Optical topometry images of leaf abaxial surfaces used for stomatal profiles](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/2-Drivers_WEB.jpg?itok=n1qbtb0H)
Drivers of natural variation in water-use efficiency under fluctuating light are promising targets for improvement in Sorghum
Charles P. Pignon, Andrew Leakey, Stephen P. Long, and Johannes Kromdijk
Frontiers in Plant Science
![Days to first flower plotted against the latitude coordinates](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2023-04/1-Flowering_WEB.png?itok=eNhiN2lv)
Managing flowering time in miscanthus and sugarcane to facilitate intra- and intergeneric crosses.
Hongxu Dong, Lindsay V. Clark, Xiaoli Jin, Kossonou Anzoua, Larisa Bagmet, Pavel Chebukin, Elena Dzyubenko, Nicolay Dzyubenko, Bimal Kumar Ghimire, Kweon Heo, Douglas A. Johnson, Hironori Nagano, Andrey Sabitov, Junhua Peng, Toshihiko Yamada, Ji Hye Yoo, Chang Yeon Yu, Hua Zhao, Stephen P. Long, Erik J. Sacks
Plos One
![Aerial image of SoyFACE](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2020-11/SOYFACE_THUMBNAIL_0.jpg?itok=pIFQfQBX)
30 years of free‐air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE): What have we learned about future crop productivity and its potential for adaptation?
Elizabeth A. Ainsworth and Stephen P. Long
Global Change Biology
![Figure from paper](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2020-11/Multiscale%20computational%20models_thumbnail.png?itok=jxeE54Hy)
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
![Figure from paper](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2020-01/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-27%20at%2011.29.11%20AM_thumbnail.png?itok=Sy4M3J1i)
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
![Transgenic tobacco plants from study](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2019-07/Manufacturing%20Cellulase_Field%20Trials%20%281%29_0.jpg?itok=EgUpYEKG)
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
![Irrigation Graph](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2019-06/ECS_Graph.png?itok=jMNCCIU2)
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
![io drivers](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2019-04/Lang%20io_drivers.jpg?itok=MgPz6fuM)
Making our plant modelling community more than the sum of its parts: a personal perspective
Stephen P. Long
in silico Plants
![Miscanthus yield figure](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2019-04/181116yield_pred_fig.jpg?itok=GrkpEE-l)
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
![Stomata](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2019-04/750px-Tomato_leaf_stomate_1-color.jpg?itok=HZ4h3B9M)
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
![M. sinensis genotypes](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2019-04/Picture1.jpg?itok=2Sgg-J60)
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
![Map of Miscanthus hardiness](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2019-04/Figure_4%20%281%29.jpg?itok=rSf0YEna)
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
![Erik Sacks with Miscanthus](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2019-03/file-20190204-193192-lnge4u_0.jpg?itok=TwoEI1Pn)
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](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2019-03/m_ery34502.jpeg?itok=IOgd6mAm)
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
![image](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2018-11/mx-630x499.jpeg?itok=LJq4WYDm)
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
![Figure](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2018-11/RACiR-630x630.jpg?itok=UZKo1pIN)
Phenotyping photosynthesis on the limit – a critical examination of RACiR
Samuel H. Taylor and Stephen P. Long
New Phytologist
![oil](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2018-11/biofule-tmb.jpg?itok=0JddFuz2)
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
![leaf with water drops](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2018-11/leaf.jpg?itok=cGQLjZDz)
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
![Rock Dust](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2018-11/Rock-Dust-630x630.jpg?itok=k7aVFsJg)
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
![cassava leaves](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2018-11/Cassava-Leaves.jpg?itok=TZyOIKRe)
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
![bioenergy crops](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2019-03/download%20%2811%29_0.jpg?itok=UzhpPgF_)
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Decreasing, not increasing, leaf area will raise crop yields under global atmospheric change
Venkatraman Srinivasan, Praveen Kumar, and Stephen P. Long
Global Change Biology
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Techno‐economic analysis of biodiesel and ethanol co‐production from lipid‐producing sugarcane
Haibo Huang, Stephen Long, and Vijay Singh
Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
![Soy](/long/system/files/styles/news_teaser_square_img_175_106_/private/2018-11/soy.jpg?itok=WY4CxQmE)
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What have we learned from 15 years of free‐air CO2 enrichment (FACE)? A meta‐analytic review of the responses of photosynthesis, canopy properties and plant production to rising CO2
Elizabeth A. Ainsworth and Stephen P. Long
New Phytologist