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Reclaiming lost calories: Tweaking photosynthesis boosts crop yields

  • Written by Amanda Cavanagh, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reclaiming lost calories: Tweaking photosynthesis boosts crop yieldsA farmer shows smaller-than-usual soybeans harvested due to drought conditions in Tallapoosa, Georgia.AP Photo/David Goldman

What if your ability to feed yourself was dependent on a process that made a mistake 20 percent of the time?

We face this situation every day. That’s because the plants that produce the food we eat evolved to solve a...

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