For decades, the basics of plant growth have been taught in grade school: Plants make their food out of water from the soil, light from the sun and carbon dioxide from the air in a process called ...

For decades, the basics of plant growth have been taught in grade-school: Plants make their food out of water from the soil, light from the sun and carbon dioxide from the air in a process called ...

In today's plants, photorespiration dissipates some of the energy produced by photosynthesis and releases CO 2. It begins when the enzyme RuBisCO acts on oxygen instead of carbon dioxide and creates ...

Photosynthetic efficiency in crop plants is governed by the capacity to convert light energy into chemical energy and to fix atmospheric CO₂ into biomass. Central to this process is Rubisco, the ...

A genetic hack to make photosynthesis more efficient could be a boon for agricultural production, at least for some plants. This feat of genetic engineering simplifies a complex, energy-expensive ...