Research Overview

Connor researches the regulation of Rubisco by sugar phosphate inhibitors and the sugar phophatase enzymes, CA1Pase and XuBPase, that degrade these inhibitors. This work focuses on understanding ways to improve photosynthetic efficiency in Cowpea and Soybean in a changing world that requires more effective and resilient crop output to feed everyone.His work entails characterizing these enzymes in vitro through recombinant expression, developing new techniques for chracterisation, as well as in planta research in the future.