An £800,000 research project aims to artificially replicate the process of photosynthesis in a bid to harness the sun's energy more efficiently. The project has earmarked the process by which plants, ...

An international team of researchers has, for the first time, demonstrated that by fixing a common glitch in photosynthesis, a crop's yield could be improved by around 40 percent. The landmark study ...

For the first time, researchers for RIPE (Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency) have proven that multigene bioengineering of photosynthesis increases the yield of a major food crop in field ...

(Nanowerk News) The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a five–year, $25-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the photosynthetic properties of key food ...

The research collaboration “TaCoCass” (Photosynthetic Efficiency in Cassava through Implementation of a Carbon-Positive Photorespiration Bypass) is investigating how the crop plant cassava captures ...