The path to C₄ rice  is complex but we got one step closer along the evolutionary trajectory form C₃ to C₄ as outlined in our latest paper published in Current Biology

Years of collaborative effort by many in the team leads to a more manageable number of genes to analyse. See – http://rdcu.be/tSU0

Congratulations to Professor Susanne von Caemmerer FRS!

The Royal Society

Susanne also received the ASPB Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award earlier this year.

American Society of Plant Biologists

Many congratulations to Professor Susanne von Caemmerer, who was presented with the Australian National University’s highly regarded Peter Baume award.

For further details, click here.

We were very pleased to meet Professor Dirk Inze during the C₄ Rice Annual Meeting in Bangkok in December 2016, as he joined Professors Dan Voytas and Bill Taylor as a highly-valued member of the External Advisory Board.

Professor Jane Langdale presented a Seminar About Long Term Thinking at the Long Now Foundation in San Fransisco on March 14th 2016.

You can see Professor Langdale’s talk, ‘Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond’ here:

http://longnow.org/seminars/02016/mar/14/radical-ag-c4-rice-and-beyond/

C₄ Rice highlighted on BBC World service Discovery program on the Future of Food Episode 2

‘Independent and parallel evolution of new genes by gene duplication in two origins of C₄ photosynthesis provides new insight into the mechanism of phloem loading in C₄ species.’

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/24/molbev.msw057.abstract?sid=8cecb98a-5ee1-4757-8974-ee8447e7b593

Developing resilience to climate change in rice – C₄ rice and more: http://europe.newsweek.com/genetically-modified-rice-climate-change-world-hunger-424773

The C₄ rice project will be discussed alongside other agricultural grand challenges at the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco on March 14^th 2016 http://longnow.org/

‘Radical Ag: C₄ Rice and Beyond’