{"id":12520,"date":"2014-11-07T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12520"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:11:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:11:37","slug":"plant-engineered-to-supercharge-photosynthesis-with-hopes-of-increasing-crop-yields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/plant-engineered-to-supercharge-photosynthesis-with-hopes-of-increasing-crop-yields","title":{"rendered":"Plant Engineered to Supercharge Photosynthesis with Hopes of Increasing Crop Yields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by David J. Hill\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/dhill\/\" rel=\"author\">David J. Hill<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79703\" src=\"\" alt=\"tobacco-plant\" width=\"580\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While computers scientists find new ways to supercharge computers, a team of plant scientists have demonstrated that they can supercharge a plant.<\/p>\n<p><span>Hoping to speed up plant photosynthesis, researchers from the US and UK have successfully upgraded a carbon-fixing enzyme vital to photosynthesis in a tobacco plant with two enzymes from cyanobacteria, which function at a faster rate. If photosynthesis can be performed more efficiently, plants would grow larger and crops could have higher yields, possibly as high as 60% according to computer models.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is the first time that a plant has been created through genetic engineering to fix all of its carbon by a cyanobacterial enzyme,\u201d said Cornell Professor Maureen Hanson, a co-author of the study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2014\/09\/plant-engineered-more-efficient-photosynthesis\">in the release<\/a>. She added, <\/span>\u201cIt is an important first step in creating plants with more efficient photosynthesis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/09\/18\/plant-engineered-to-supercharge-photosynthesis-with-hopes-of-increasing-crop-yields\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: David J. Hill \u2014 Singularity Hub While computers scientists find new ways to supercharge computers, a team of plant scientists have demonstrated that they can supercharge a plant. Hoping to speed up plant photosynthesis, researchers from the US and UK have successfully upgraded a carbon-fixing enzyme vital to photosynthesis in a tobacco plant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-environmental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46786,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520\/revisions\/46786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}