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Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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From left, former Illinois Summer Fellow from the University of Oxford Robert Collison, former post-doctoral researcher Charles Pignon, and former Illinois Summer Fellow from Oxford Emma Raven discovered that altered light conditions were the cause of a maladaptation that limits photosynthesis in the bottom leaves of maize and the bioenergy crop Miscanthus.

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WEST project/University of Illinois

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