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Andrew Hanson

Principal Investigator

University of Florida

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Plant metabolism, enzyme engineering, synthetic biology

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Focuses on process-level strategies to lift crop productivity by lowering metabolic energy costs: refactoring high-cost pathways, extending enzyme lifetimes, optimizing cofactor biosynthesis, and applying continuous directed evolution to plant enzymes.

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University of Florida

Continuous Directed Evolution Platform to Reduce Crop Respiration and Boost Yield

A directed evolution platform that engineers crop enzymes to turn over more slowly, cutting respiratory carbon loss and increasing harvested yield and biomass. Proof-of-concept targets thiamin biosynthesis enzymes THI4 a...

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Andrew Hanson

Principal Investigator

University of Florida

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University of Florida

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