ERC Starting Grant · 2022
A ~70% increase in food production is required to feed the world population by 2050, putting increased productivity on a collision course with environmental and sustainability goals. Aiming to meet this growing demand, photosynthesis-related pathways are regarded as a promising target for crop improvement to increase agricultural yield, however, they remain mostly unexploited. Furthermore, while empirical studies have shown that photosynthetic efficiency is higher in microalgae than in both C3 or C4 crops, the underlying reasons remain unclear. Identifying metabolic bottlenecks in photosynthetic cells remains a holy grail of plant research. However, with recent progress made in…
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