{"id":126378,"date":"2021-08-17T06:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/improving-photosynthesis-in-crops-to-boost-yields"},"modified":"2021-08-17T06:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:22:47","slug":"improving-photosynthesis-in-crops-to-boost-yields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/improving-photosynthesis-in-crops-to-boost-yields","title":{"rendered":"Improving Photosynthesis in Crops To Boost Yields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/improving-photosynthesis-in-crops-to-boost-yields.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to feed a projected 9 billion people by 2,050 farmers need to grow 50% more food on a limited amount of arable land. As a result, plant scientists are in a race against time to engineer crops with higher yields by improving photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) are known to photosynthesize more efficiently than most crops, so researchers are working to put elements from cyanobacteria into crop plants.<\/p>\n<p>A new study describes a significant step towards achieving that goal. \u201cAbsence of Carbonic Anhydrase in Chloroplasts Affects C3 Plant Development but Not Photosynthesis,\u201d published on August 11 2021, in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to feed a projected 9 billion people by 2,050 farmers need to grow 50% more food on a limited amount of arable land. As a result, plant scientists are in a race against time to engineer crops with higher yields by improving photosynthesis. Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) are known to photosynthesize more efficiently than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126378","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}