Publications

Comparing Ammonium uptake from the soil to relative growth rate

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Aerial picture of rice paddies.

Photosynthesis engineered to increase rice yield

Stephen P. Long

Nature Food volume

Figure from paper

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

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

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

Making our plant modelling community more than the sum of its parts: a personal perspective

Stephen P. Long

in silico Plants

Miscanthus yield figure

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

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

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

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

Correspondence between QTLs

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

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

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

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

Phenotyping photosynthesis on the limit – a critical examination of RACiR

Samuel H. Taylor and Stephen P. Long

New Phytologist

oil

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

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

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

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

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

Jet

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

n climate

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

Grass

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

Ray Tracing

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

instrument

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

fields

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

oils

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

soybeans

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.

Silicate

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

Crops

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

CyanoBacteria

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

leaf

Decreasing, not increasing, leaf area will raise crop yields under global atmospheric change

Venkatraman Srinivasan, Praveen Kumar, and Stephen P. Long

Global Change Biology

Science Cover

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

figure

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

casava

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

Soy

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

Hands

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

Miscanthus

Techno‐economic analysis of biodiesel and ethanol co‐production from lipid‐producing sugarcane

Haibo Huang, Stephen Long, and Vijay Singh

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Plants

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

Figure Map

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

dropplet

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

tut

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

carbon cycle

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

Corn

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

willlow

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

Psi logo

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

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

United States

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

Figure

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

Figure 1

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

Agathis Lanceolata Plantation

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

leaf

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

Fall, Miscanthus x giganeus

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

Agave

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

Rice Field

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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Sisal/Agave

Sarah C. Davis and Stephen P. Long

Industrial Crops. Handbook of Plant Breeding

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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