Engineering light availability for crop production—a solution for coming challenges? – Phys.org

What if we could increase a plant’s productivity by modifying the light to which it is exposed? This could increase the yield of important food and biofuel crops and also combat climate change by sequestering atmospheric carbon.
In a recent perspective piece in Energy and Environmental Science, Carnegie’s Arthur Grossman and Petra Redekop joined colleagues from Stanford UniversityLarissa Kunz, Matteo Cargnello, and Arun Majumdarand University of Illinois Urbana Champaign’s Donald Ort to argue that…

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