(March 26, 2015) Using
high-performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic
efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to
feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers
report in the journal Cell.
There has never been a better time to try this, said
University of Illinois plant biology professor Stephen P. Long, who wrote the
report with colleagues from Illinois and the CAS-MPG Partner Institute of
Computational Biology in Shanghai.