Adapting C4 Photosynthesis to Atmospheric Change and Increasing Productivity by Elevating Rubisco Content in Sorghum and Sugarcane

Themes: Feedstock Production

Keywords: Biomass Analytics, Sorghum, Sugarcane

Citation

Salesse-Smith, C.E., Adar, N., Kannan, B., Nguyen, T., Wei, W., Guo, M., Ge, Z., Altpeter, F., Clemente, T., Long, S.P. Feb. 11, 2025. Data from: “Adapting C4 Photosynthesis to Atmospheric Change and Increasing Productivity by Elevating Rubisco Content in Sorghum and Sugarcane.” GitHub.

Overview

Side view of 4 of the 24 four-row plots of the four sorghum genotypes tested at boot stage in the field in Urbana, Illinois summer 2023.

This repository includes data sets and R scripts that were used to perform analysis and produce figures for the following publication:

Salesse-Smith, C. E. et al. “Adapting C4 photosynthesis to atmospheric change and increasing productivity by elevating Rubisco content in sorghum and sugarcane.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2419943122 (2025) doi:10.1073/pnas.2419943122.

Data

GitHub: R scripts and field data for analysis

Download (4.2 KB) includes:

  • Leaf gas exchange
  • Harvest measurements
  • Leaf mass data (chlorophyll, C, N, protein)

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