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    Scientists further cowpea research—boosting canopy CO2 assimilation, water-use efficiency
    2020-08-19 - Crops grow dense canopies that consist of several layers of leaves—the upper layers with younger sun leaves and the lower layers with older shaded leaves that may have difficulty intercepting sunlight trickling down from the top layers. In a recent study published in Food and Energy Security...
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    Study tracks decades of life cycle changes in nonwoody plants
    2020-06-09 - For 25 years, Carol Augspurger visited a patch of ancient woods near Urbana to look at the same 25 one-square-meter plots of earth she first demarcated for study in 1993. She surveyed the plots once a week in spring and summer, tracking the major life events of each of the herbaceous plants that grew there. In fall, she visited every other week. In winter, once a...
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    SIB's Commitment to Diversity and Equity
    2020-06-01 - Dear SIB Community, At the end of May, 2020, Chancellor Jones sent out an email with a powerful message of unity for this campus - we must come together and care for one another. He reminds us that the University of Illinois is a "community committed to the scholarship, engagement, equity, inclusion and leadership that dismantles...
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    James O’Dwyer Selected as 2020–2021 Radcliffe Institute Fellow
    2020-05-26 - James O’Dwyer has been named a 2020–2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, joining an...
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    Lisa Ainsworth of USDA-ARS elected to the National Academy of Sciences
    2020-04-29 - Lisa Ainsworth, a research plant physiologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service and adjunct professor of plant biology and crop sciences at the University of Illinois, has been...
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    College of LAS announces named scholar positions
    2020-04-28 - Carl Bernacchi honored for contributions in education and research
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    Stephen Long named Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair
    2020-02-12 - Professor of plant biology and crop sciences receives one of U of I's highest honors University of Illinois professor Stephen Long, a renowned researcher known particularly for his work in photosynthesis and addressing food insecurity, has been named an Ikenberry Endowed University Chair of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences.
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    DOE Project at U of I Will Measure Bioenergy Crop Carbon Emissions
    2020-01-24 - The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $3.3 million grant to a multidisciplinary research team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to develop a precise system for measuring greenhouse gas emissions from commercial bioenergy crops grown in central Illinois.
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    Illinois researchers rank among world’s most influential
    2019-12-16 - Eight faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been named to the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, a global listing of scientists who produced the past decade’s most influential papers, compiled by the Web of Science group, a Clarivate Analytics company. Three investigators with SIB'...
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    Professor Lisa Ainsworth elected AAAS Fellow
    2019-11-26 - Eight professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to include Plant Biology's Lisa Ainsworth, have been elected 2019 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ainsworth is the research leader of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Global Change and Photosynthesis...
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    Bill Gates wants to hack photosynthesis
    2019-11-18 - What: “Tuning up photosynthesis” a hybrid scientific-explainer-slash-music-video created by the Gates Foundation to popularize the idea plants can be engineered in ways that improve upon nature. Who: This work is being pioneered by RIPE—the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency project with ties to the University of Illinois and eight other...
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    Researcher Spotlight: Katy Heath, Ph.D.
    2019-11-12 - With the Researcher Spotlight, the Microbial Systems Initiative aims to introduce its readers to the breadth and diversity of research interests and potential growth opportunities on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. Katy Heath, PhD, is an associate professor of Plant Biology in the ...
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    Fire-spawned forest fungi hide out in other organisms, study finds
    2019-10-25 - Fire-loving fungi are among the first organisms to appear on the forest floor after a fire, followed closely by mosses and lichens.
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    Study provides framework for one billion years of green plant evolution
    2019-10-23 - Gene sequences for more than 1100 plant species have been released by an international consortium of nearly 200 plant scientists, the culmination of a nine-year research project.
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    Study finds rising ozone a hidden threat to corn
    2019-10-01 - A new study reveals genetic differences that influence how corn responds to higher concentrations of ground-level ozone.

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