{"id":756,"date":"2026-09-24T11:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/?page_id=756"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:50:23","slug":"bioenergy-and-renewable-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/bioenergy-and-renewable-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioenergy and Renewable Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PBL and the Kausch Lab are funded by The United States Department of Energy in collaboration with The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and The National Science Foundation, and with goals to develop sorghum bicolor L. as an agriculturally sustainable renewable bioenergy resource. The PBL serves as the central hub for creating and analyzing the transgenic and genome edited lines required for this research on various trait genes and technology development projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Traits and Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"427\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2280\/Screenshot-2026-09-24-114249.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2280\/Screenshot-2026-09-24-114249.jpg 427w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2280\/Screenshot-2026-09-24-114249-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2280\/Screenshot-2026-09-24-114249-364x206.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25cf Photosynthesis Efficiency<br>\u25cf Drought Tolerance<br>\u25cf Water Use Efficiency<br>\u25cf Root Development<br>\u25cf Transformation Technology<br>\u25cf Co-Product Development<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DOE BER Project title: <strong>Integrated Engineering of Whole Plant Water Use Efficiency in Sorghum and Setaria<\/strong> Recipient: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center PI Baxter, IvanCo-PIsAlbert P Kausch; Sue Rhee; Jos\u00e9 Dinneny; Andrew Leakey; Jennifer Brophy Asaph Cousins; Dan Voytas. University of Rhode Island Subaward No 23217-R for Stable Transgenic Sorghum Transformation and Genome Editing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PBL and the Kausch Lab are funded by The United States Department of Energy in collaboration with The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and The National Science Foundation, and with goals to develop sorghum bicolor L. as an agriculturally sustainable renewable bioenergy resource. The PBL serves as the central hub for creating and analyzing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5144,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-756","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}