Photosynthesis Unaffected by Increasing Carbon Dioxide Channels in Plant Membranes
Published:16 May2022 Source:Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Modifying photosynthesis has increasingly been a research target to improve crop yields to feed a growing global population in the face of climate change and other environmental factors.
In a recent study, published in the Journal of Experimental Botany, a team from the Australian National University (ANU) investigated the effects of increasing the amount of carbon dioxide channels in plant membranes, but could not detect any impact on photosynthesis in model tobacco plants.