Research Shines Light on Crop Photosynthesis

For years, a global team, funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been working to improve crop production by engineering plants to photosynthesize more efficiently. Now, as part of the RIPE (Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency) project, a group of internatiional scientists has determined that it’s possible to quickly and efficiently measure the impact of genetically engineered improvements using a process called spectral analysis.

Here’s how it works.…