Corn crop (IMAGE)

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Corn crop

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RIPE researchers have shown that by treating photosynthesis as a dynamic process, C4 plants like corn could improve their reaction to changes in light, improving overall yield.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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