Lisa Ainsworth’s Laboratory

With ~12.6% of the global land surface covered by croplands, the scale of the challenge and opportunity for adapting agriculture to global atmospheric change is vast. We study solutions to this challenge across scales, from identifying genes and adapting germplasm to atmospheric change to measuring and improving photosynthesis to testing mitigation strategies for reducing greenhouse gases from agricultural systems. Our lab is a team of creative and dedicated scientists who work together to address the grand challenge of adapting agriculture to global change.

Photo credit: Jim Baltz ; Scott Gable