Produce more energy-efficient crops that require less energy input for cultivation.

Engineering Biology

Energy Challenge:

Reduce global energy consumption.

Engineering DNA	Biomolecular Engineering	Host Engineering	Data Science
Efficient CRISPR systems for plants.	Drought-toleration synthetic circuits that close pores in response to environmental or externally-delivered signals.	Produce model plants that have a higher yield. Efficient plant transformation technologies (including for chloroplast and genome) for energy relevant plants.	Risk assessment models for the impact of engineered plants on the surrounding ecology. Methods to capture field data (such as growth, microbial composition) under non-standardized conditions over a long period of time.

Engineering DNA

Biomolecular Engineering

Host Engineering

Data Science

Efficient CRISPR systems for plants.

Drought-toleration synthetic circuits that close pores in response to environmental or externally-delivered signals.

Produce model plants that have a higher yield.

Efficient plant transformation technologies (including for chloroplast and genome) for energy relevant plants.

Risk assessment models for the impact of engineered plants on the surrounding ecology.

Methods to capture field data (such as growth, microbial composition) under non-standardized conditions over a long period of time.

Engineering DNA	Biomolecular Engineering	Host Engineering	Data Science
Efficient CRISPR systems for plants.	Rational engineering and directed evolution of the photosynthetic light-harvesting complex.	Efficient expression of functional designed enzymes.	Modeling of photosynthesis and use of model to design a photosynthetic apparatus that captures more light.