Turbo-Charged Photosynthesis Could Make Crops Grow Faster While Using Fewer Nutrients
One of the neat sarcasm of evolution is that almost all known life depends on one of the slow and most inefficient enzyme on Earth . Cyanobacteria have evolved a better mechanics to mete out with the slow rate at which the Rubisco enzyme work carbon dioxide than works . Now scientists have taken the largest step towards transfer this work - around into a flora . If the process can be complete , crop output may increase by as much as 60 percent while fertilizer and water demands refuse , making it the single largest advance in harvest efficiency ever contemplated ....