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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. Every country is facing effects of climate change – not just heatwaves but also more severe and frequent rainstorms, increased threat of wildfires and more intense drought. All these factors have negative effects on crop yields, causing food insecurity worldwide. Greenhouse gases, e.g., CO2, and methane...
Biological & Health SciencesPeggy G. Lemaux - Professor of Cooperative Extension, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench), is the fifth most important cereal crop worldwide and is a critical food, forage, and emerging biofuel crop. Understanding the photosynthetic mechanisms by which sorghum can capture sunlight more efficiently under adverse climate conditions is critical to using this crop to remove carbon dioxide that...
Biological & Health Sciences