date:Dec 18, 2012
years of its operation. Illinois is also home to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act PETROSS program, which is engineering improved photosynthesis into two key U.S. bioenergy crops, sugarcane and sorghum.
Don Ort, associate director of the project and Robert Emerson Professor of Plant Biology at Illinois and USDAAgricultural Research Service research leader, states Business-as-usual crop development in the face of accelerating agricultural demand and the challenges of rapid global change