Scientists Engineer Crops to Consume More Carbon Dioxide

Photo caption: Sorghum. Photo credit: Michele Dorsey Walfred via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Yale Environment 360: E360 Digest – December 23, 2024. Study: bioRxiv. 

Scientists have engineered sugarcane and sorghum to take advantage of rising levels of carbon dioxide, allowing these crops to grow bigger. To achieve this, researchers focused on the enzyme Rubisco. Plants deploy Rubisco to help capture carbon dioxide for use in photosynthesis. But sometimes Rubisco can consume oxygen instead, slowing growth. […]

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