{"id":202142,"date":"2024-12-22T07:08:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-discover-genetic-blueprint-that-could-revolutionize-global-food-production-more-productive-and-resilient-crops-for-the-future"},"modified":"2024-12-22T07:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:08:15","slug":"scientists-discover-genetic-blueprint-that-could-revolutionize-global-food-production-more-productive-and-resilient-crops-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-discover-genetic-blueprint-that-could-revolutionize-global-food-production-more-productive-and-resilient-crops-for-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover genetic blueprint that could revolutionize global food production: \u2018More productive and resilient crops for the future\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rptORtfzN68?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To harness the power of the sun and make sugars for energy storage, plants use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/artificial-photosynthesis-hydrogel-solar-energy\/\">photosynthesis<\/a>. But some plants are more efficient at it than others. For the first time, researchers have identified a key step in the transformation between old-fashioned C3 photosynthesis and new and improved C4 photosynthesis \u2014 which could lead to the development of more efficient, more resilient \u201csuper crops,\u201d SciTechDaily <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/the-photosynthesis-upgrade-creating-super-crops-for-a-changing-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Salk Institute in San Diego, California, collaborated with researchers at the University of Cambridge to make the breakthrough, charting the evolution of plants over millions of years.<\/p>\n<p>While 95% of plants use C3 photosynthesis, SciTechDaily <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/the-photosynthesis-upgrade-creating-super-crops-for-a-changing-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a>, a new group of plants evolved to use C4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/artificial-photosynthesis-human-made-mars\/\">photosynthesis<\/a> around 30 million years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To harness the power of the sun and make sugars for energy storage, plants use photosynthesis. But some plants are more efficient at it than others. For the first time, researchers have identified a key step in the transformation between old-fashioned C3 photosynthesis and new and improved C4 photosynthesis \u2014 which could lead to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202142","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}