From the Farm: U of I professor named World Food Prize recipient

CHAMPAIGN (WCIA) — The University of Illinois has another faculty member who has received an international distinction.

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Dr. Stephen Long, Ikenberry Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology at U of I, has been figuring out how to make crops yield more by using sunlight energy for the last 50 years. As a result, he has been declared agrifood professor and the recipient pioneer for the World Food Prize this October in Des Moines, Iowa.

“That’ll be a very special day, a very special recognition for all the people who’ve worked with me at [the University of] Illinois and are carrying on this work, here and around the world,” Long said. “My major objective in all of the work has really been to improve the process of photosynthesis in our crops, and also future proof it so that it can still function under the changes we know that are going to happen over the next 50 years.”

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