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Genome Editing of CO₂ Signaling Pathways to Improve Water-use Efficiency in Sorghum

Peggy G. Lemaux - Professor of Cooperative Extension, Plant and Microbial Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

General Description and Research Approach. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is the fifth most important cereal crop worldwide and serves as a major source of food, animal forage, and an emerging biofuel feedstock. Understanding the stomatal dynamics that enable sorghum to use water efficiently under drought and water-limited conditions...

 Biological & Health Sciences

Tackling Climate Change Through Carbon Sequestration: Enhancing Photosynthesis and Plant Root Architecture

Peggy G. Lemaux - Professor of Cooperative Extension, Plant and Microbial Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

New approaches are needed to capture larger amounts of atmospheric carbon with the goal of reducing atmospheric CO2 and slowing or perhaps even reversing global warming. Plants are a proposed scalable solution, with the potential to both capture atmospheric carbon through photosynthetic CO2 fixation and store it through carbon sequestration...

 Biological & Health Sciences

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