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Stephen Long

joined in Aug 21, 2017

Professor at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois, USA.

Long has 1 break published.

Cloudy days cost yield until scientists hacked photosynthesis

Throughout the growing season seemingly benign clouds pass over millions of acres of crops and inadvertently rob plants of their productivity, costing untold bushels of potential yield. Researchers recently reported in the journal Science that they have engineered a solution and increased the productivity of... click to read more

Stephen Long | Professor at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois, USA

Katarzyna Głowacka | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois, USA

Johannes Kromdijk | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois

agriculture

GMO

plants metabolism

photosynthesis

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Feb 2, 2017

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