Stephen P. Long

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Top expertise

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

    Strong evidence · 7 supporting papers · latest 2026

  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

    Strong evidence · 3 supporting papers · latest 2025

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

    Strong evidence · 3 supporting papers · latest 2025

  • Bioenergy crop production and management

    Strong evidence · 3 supporting papers · latest 2026

  • Light effects on plants

    Strong evidence · 1 supporting paper · latest 2025

  • Coffee research and impacts

    Strong evidence · 1 supporting paper · latest 2025

  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

    Strong evidence · 1 supporting paper · latest 2025

  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility

    Solid evidence · 1 supporting paper · latest 2025

Publications (15)

  • Safeguarding crop photosynthesis in a rapidly warming world

    2025DOIPMID 40504917

  • Addition of longer wavelength absorbing chlorophylls into crops could increase their photosynthetic productivity by 26%

    2025DOIPMID 40858591

  • Needs and opportunities to future-proof crops and the use of crop systems to mitigate atmospheric change

    2025DOIPMID 40439295

  • Adapting C 4 photosynthesis to atmospheric change and increasing productivity by elevating Rubisco content in sorghum and sugarcane

    2025DOIPMID 39932987

  • Constitutive down‐regulation of liguleless alleles in sorghum drives increased productivity and water use efficiency

    2025DOIPMID 40452217

  • Feeding from the sun—Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security

    2025DOIPMID 41308618

  • An orphan gene BOOSTER enhances photosynthetic efficiency and plant productivity

    2025DOIPMID 39842431

  • A century of soybean breeding increased photosynthetic capacity but not NPQ relaxation

    2026DOI

  • Feeding from the sun-Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security.

    2025DOI

  • Miscanthus giganteus Biolistic Transformation Using the Visible RUBY Red Marker Gene to Monitor Transformation Efficiency

    2026DOI

  • Data for An Orphan Gene BOOSTER Enhances Photosynthetic Efficiency and Plant Productivity

    2026DOI

  • Data for A Fluorescence- Based Transient Expression Assay for the Analysis of Upstream Open Reading Frames in Plants

    2026DOI

  • Data for Miscanthus giganteus Biolistic Transformation Using the Visible RUBY Red Marker Gene to Monitor Transformation Efficiency

    2026DOI

  • Announcing Global Change Biology—Communications

    2025DOIPMID 40799088

  • Evaluation of LiDAR-based Canopy Trait Estimation in Midwestern Row Crops

    2025DOI

Organizations in sourced records

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  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Source: OpenAlex · retrieved 2026-09-29

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