Photosynthesis

Dr. G. Charles Dismukes

Principal Investigator

To mitigate many of the potentially deleterious environmental and agricultural consequences associated with current landbased-biofuel feedstocks, we advocate the use of biofuels derived from aquatic microbial oxygenic photoautotrophs (AMOPs), more commonly known as algae, cyanobacteria and diatoms.

Multi-Institutional Projects

Plant Genome Initiative at Rutgers (PGIR) is pioneering breakthroughs in sequencing sorghum, rice, and maize genomes. PGIR was originally established as a sequencing facility in order to participate in the consortium known as the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project. It is the only participant in the project that is financially supported solely by its own institution.