Turning up plant efficiency

[@peterp-a-n4743]

GMOs are awesome. (Unfortunately superstition and supernatural worldviews keep so many people from getting that.)

[@rnrrc9059]

food should not be the main target of the increasing rate of photosynthesis but making the already best-equipped air filters faster to keep up with us

[@qlifee]

I woke up this morning with some notifications of new videos from the channels I like and follow, this was the only one I gave a thumps up 👍 keep up the excellent work

[@mahadib.alyami8606]

I read the review article, but I don't get it. If the plants have (and use) this mechanism (nonphotochemical quenching) spontaneously why we need to edit their genes to make them recover quickly? It's like trying to make humans get enough sleep with only 2 hours while they actually need 8 hours. For the plants it's the same thing, and if we try to change this may be it will lead to harmful effects. Plants understand themselves better than us.

[@saccccon]

Evolution is always leading to adaptation and often fails to obtain perfection in its design. This is, for example, the case for photosynthesis where, during millions of years of evolution, a wasteful mechanism to protect from excessive sunlight (non photochemical quenching) has been developed, which is optimal for plants to protect themselves and survive, but leads to great losses in terms of biomass production. Of course, this doesn't bother plants that are just designed to survive and reproduce. But knowing that there is this wasteful system and that it can be improved is really promising for agriculture and crop production. This research shows exactly that it is possible to manipulate this process to obtain better yield in a crop field, in a very controlled way and without harmful effects. If you want to read a reference: www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/28/8529.full.pdf

[@rnrrc9059]

to keep up with the rate of carbon dioxide produced by us and producing oxygen at a faster rate

[@tonyclarke570]

Me and my plants are loving Co2.

[@caiocc12]

LOL for feeding more people. They will just use less land to reduce costs and pocket the difference

[@rogerfrost3793]

Or use the same amount of land to make more money. I don’t have problem with that.

[@fburton8]

Effficiency? :)

[@S....]

And then comes some hotter times and plants die.

[@BossOfAllTrades]

Or you could just use the efficient plants instead