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Erik J Sacks

Associate Professor

UIUC

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College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

Crop Sciences

Department of Crop Sciences

Erik J Sacks is currently serving as a College Of Agricultural, Consumer And Environmental Sciences Associate Professor at Uiuc.

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Erik J Sacks

UIUC

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plant science genetics genetic variation genomics biology botany agronomy plant genetics evolutionary biology population genetics plant breeding crop improvement agricultural economics plant genomics molecular ecology genome biology experimental botany quantitative genetics plant physiology plant biotechnology genetic diversity sustainable agriculture agricultural biotechnology crop physiology plant ecology photosynthesis crop science plant-abiotic interaction plant diversity biomass yield genetic engineering horticulture research sustainable crop production natural products molecular breeding applied genetics genome analysis population genomics plant reproduction m. sinensis miscanthus sinensis heredity systematics cellulose crop production crop yields winter hardiness perennial grains applied ecology plant soil precision agriculture lignin plant analysis phytochemistry plant-microbe interactions regenerative agriculture soil management vegetation science genotype-phenotype association genome-wide association studies photorespiration computational genomics crop establishment perennial rice perennial cultivars diploid m. sinensis exceptional chilling tolerance perennial grass c 4 molecular markers dry biomass yield φ psii perennial grain development food production.perennial grains agroecology precision breeding

Notable Scholarly Works

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Collaborators

Breaking the Barrier of Human-Annotated Training Data for Machine-Learning-Aided Plant Research Using Aerial Imagery. (2025)

Sebastian VarelaXuying ZhengJoyce NjugunaErik SacksDylan AllenJeremy RuhterAndrew Leakey

image representationsensor datamachine learning researchmachine learning modelsesgan modelcomputer sciencemachine learningdata sciencemachine learning toolsimage classificationartificial intelligenceimage analysisdata annotationdeep learning

Registration of Three Cotton Germplasm Lines With Extremely High Fiber Strength Derived From Crosses Between Upland Cotton and Diploid Gossypium Species. Journal of Plant Registrations (2025)

Linghe ZengErik J. SacksDavid D. FangJinfa Zhang

fiber lengthhigh fiber strengthgeneticsfiber strengthbotanycrop scienceagronomyplant breedingcrop improvementplant geneticsgenetic variationagricultural biotechnologyagricultural economics

Genetic Basis of Non‐Photochemical Quenching and Photosystem II Efficiency Responses to Chilling in the Biomass Crop Miscanthus. GCB Bioenergy (2024)

Asha KumariJoyce N. NjugunaXuying ZhengJohannes KromdijkErik J. SacksKatarzyna Glowacka

non‐photochemical quenchingbotanycrop scienceplant physiologyagronomyplant sciencebiologycrop improvementplant ecologycrop physiologygenetic variationφpsii traitsecologyφpsii kinetics

Improving Precision and Accuracy of Genetic Mapping With Genotyping‐by‐Sequencing Data in Outcrossing Species. GCB Bioenergy (2024)

Nicholas R. LaBonteDessireé P. Zerpa‐CatanhoSiyao LiuLiang XiaoHongxu DongLindsay V. ClarkErik J. Sacks

plant genomicsgeneticsplant speciesquantitative geneticspopulation geneticsstatistical geneticserror ratebiostatisticsplant sciencegenomicsevolutionary biologypopulation genomicsmolecular ecologyplant geneticsgenetic variationqtl mappinggenome biology

Pilot-Scale Processing of Miscanthus X Giganteus for Recovery of Anthocyanins Integrated With Production of Microbial Lipids and Lignin-Rich Residue. Chemical Engineering Journal (2024)

Shivali BanerjeeBruce S. DienKristen K. EiltsErik J. SacksVijay Singh

pilot scalechemical-free hydrothermal pretreatmentcellulosebioresource technologybiological engineeringlab scalebiochemical engineeringbiomass (energy)biotechnologybiomass characterizationbiomass conversionchemical engineering

Additional File 4 of Transformation and Gene Editing in the Bioenergy Grass Miscanthus. Open MIND (2023)

Anthony TrieuMohammad B. BelaffifPradeepa HirannaiahShilpa ManjunathaRebekah WoodYokshitha BathulaRebecca L. BillingsleyAnjali ArpanErik J. SacksThomas E. ClementeStephen P. MooseNancy A. ReichertKankshita Swaminathan

molecular evolutionplant genomicsgeneticsmolecular geneticsbotanygene editingplant sciencegenomicsbiologyevolutionary biologyadditional file 4plant biotechnologyplant geneticsgenome biologybioenergy grass miscanthusgenetic engineering

Biomass Yield in a Genetically Diverse Miscanthus Sacchariflorus Germplasm Panel Phenotyped at Five Locations in Asia, North America, and Europe. GCB Bioenergy (2023)

Joyce N. NjugunaLindsay V. ClarkKossonou G. AnzouaLarisa BagmetPavel ChebukinMaria S. DwiyantiElena DzyubenkoNicolay DzyubenkoBimal Kumar GhimireXiaoli JinDouglas A. JohnsonUffe JørgensenJens Bonderup KjeldsenHironori NaganoJunhua PengKaren Koefoed PetersenAndrey SabitovEun Soo SeongToshihiko YamadaJi Hye YooChang Yeon YuHua ZhaoStephen P. LongErik J. Sacks

culm lengthdry biomass yieldgeneticsbotanypopulation geneticsbiomass yieldagronomyplant scienceplant breedinggenomicsbiologygenetic diversitycrop improvementplant biotechnologygenetic variation

DISCUSSION: Prioritize Perennial Grain Development for Sustainable Food Production and Environmental Benefits. The Science of The Total Environment (2023)

Lee R. DeHaanJames A. AndersonPrabin BajgainAndrea BascheDouglas J. CattaniJared CrainTimothy E. CrewsChristophe DavidOlivier DucheneJessica GutknechtRichard C. HayesFengyi HuJacob M. JungersSøren KnudsenWenqian KongSteve LarsonPer-Olof LundquistGuangbin LuoAllison J. MillerPheonah NabukaluMatthew T. NewellLennart OlssonMichael PalmgrenAndrew H. PatersonValentin D. PicassoJesse A. PolandErik J. SacksShuwen WangAnna Westerbergh

food systemsregenerative agriculturesustainable productionagronomyperennial grainsfood production.perennial grainssustainable agriculturesoil managementenvironmental sciencesustainable crop productionperennial grain developmentagricultural economicssoil

DISCUSSION: Prioritize Perennial Grain Development for Sustainable Food Production and Environmental Benefits. Authorea (Authorea) (2023)

Lee DeHaanJared CrainJesse PolandErik SacksJames AndersonPrabin BajgainAndrea BascheDouglas CattaniTimothy CrewsChristophe DavidOlivier DucheneJessica GutknechtRichard HayesFengyi HuJacob JungersSoren KnudsenWenquian KongSteve LarsonPer-Olaf LundquistGuangbin LuoAllison MillerPheonah NabukaluMatthew NewellLennart OlssonMichael PalmgrenAndrew PattersonValentin PicassoShuwen WangAnna Westerbergh

Genome-Wide Association Analysis for Emergence of Deeply Sown Rice (Oryza Sativa) Reveals Novel Aus-Specific Phytohormone Candidate Genes for Adaptation to Dry-Direct Seeding in the Field. Frontiers in Plant Science (2023)

Sandeep A. SakhaleShailesh YadavLindsay V. ClarkAlexander E. LipkaArvind KumarErik J. Sacks

plant genomicsgeneticsdry-dsr traitssown dry-dsrpopulation geneticsquantitative geneticsplant scienceplant breedinggenomicsevolutionary biologycrop improvementdeeply sown riceplant biotechnologyplant geneticsgenetic variationagricultural biotechnologygenome biology

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Erik J Sacks

Associate Professor

UIUC

Affiliations

College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

Crop Sciences

Department of Crop Sciences

Erik J Sacks is currently serving as a College Of Agricultural, Consumer And Environmental Sciences Associate Professor at Uiuc.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Erik J Sacks

UIUC

Associate Professor

You can click a keyword to filter the displayed items

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Breaking the Barrier of Human-Annotated Training Data for Machine-Learning-Aided Plant Research Using Aerial Imagery. (2025)

Sebastian VarelaXuying ZhengJoyce NjugunaErik SacksDylan AllenJeremy RuhterAndrew Leakey

Registration of Three Cotton Germplasm Lines With Extremely High Fiber Strength Derived From Crosses Between Upland Cotton and Diploid Gossypium Species. Journal of Plant Registrations (2025)

Linghe ZengErik J. SacksDavid D. FangJinfa Zhang

fiber lengthhigh fiber strengthgeneticsfiber strengthbotanycrop scienceagronomyplant breedingcrop improvementplant geneticsgenetic variationagricultural biotechnologyagricultural economics

Genetic Basis of Non‐Photochemical Quenching and Photosystem II Efficiency Responses to Chilling in the Biomass Crop Miscanthus. GCB Bioenergy (2024)

Asha KumariJoyce N. NjugunaXuying ZhengJohannes KromdijkErik J. SacksKatarzyna Glowacka

non‐photochemical quenchingbotanycrop scienceplant physiologyagronomyplant sciencebiologycrop improvementplant ecologycrop physiologygenetic variationφpsii traitsecologyφpsii kinetics

Improving Precision and Accuracy of Genetic Mapping With Genotyping‐by‐Sequencing Data in Outcrossing Species. GCB Bioenergy (2024)

Nicholas R. LaBonteDessireé P. Zerpa‐CatanhoSiyao LiuLiang XiaoHongxu DongLindsay V. ClarkErik J. Sacks

Pilot-Scale Processing of Miscanthus X Giganteus for Recovery of Anthocyanins Integrated With Production of Microbial Lipids and Lignin-Rich Residue. Chemical Engineering Journal (2024)

Shivali BanerjeeBruce S. DienKristen K. EiltsErik J. SacksVijay Singh

Additional File 4 of Transformation and Gene Editing in the Bioenergy Grass Miscanthus. Open MIND (2023)

Biomass Yield in a Genetically Diverse Miscanthus Sacchariflorus Germplasm Panel Phenotyped at Five Locations in Asia, North America, and Europe. GCB Bioenergy (2023)

culm lengthdry biomass yieldgeneticsbotanypopulation geneticsbiomass yieldagronomyplant scienceplant breedinggenomicsbiologygenetic diversitycrop improvementplant biotechnologygenetic variation

DISCUSSION: Prioritize Perennial Grain Development for Sustainable Food Production and Environmental Benefits. The Science of The Total Environment (2023)

DISCUSSION: Prioritize Perennial Grain Development for Sustainable Food Production and Environmental Benefits. Authorea (Authorea) (2023)

Sandeep A. SakhaleShailesh YadavLindsay V. ClarkAlexander E. LipkaArvind KumarErik J. Sacks

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