A tiny plant’s molecular “velcro” could help crops turn sunlight into food more efficiently. An international team of ...

Linker that joins up Rubisco cuts synthesis of toxic byproduct that plants pay a heavy energy price to deal with ...

New research has found that rubisco -- the enzyme that fuels all life on Earth -- is not stuck in an evolutionary rut after all. The largest analysis of rubisco ever has found that it is improving all ...

As part of the Tansley Review, the trio discuss their own research in increasing Rubisco in sorghum, as shown in these 2023 field trials. The authors believe improving rubisco could be part of ...

Researchers have uncovered a molecular trick used by hornwort plants that could help future crops capture carbon dioxide more ...

Proof of Concept is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most unexpected research. Pretty much all life on Earth – plants, animals, humans – in large ...

The RuBisCO enzyme, the most abundant protein on the planet, is an essential component of photosynthesis, but it isn’t terribly efficient, especially when it gets hot. Over time, some plants evolved a ...

Again, Rubisco formed dense compartments inside the plant's chloroplasts. "We even tried attaching just the STAR tail to Arabidopsis's native Rubisco, and it triggered the same clustering effect," ...

This substitution, combined with the development of a new metabolic cycle, the MOG cycle, could potentially revolutionize carbon fixation processes, greatly enhancing plant productivity. The shift ...

In the recent study, “Improving the Efficiency of Rubisco by Resurrecting Its Ancestors in the Family Solanaceae,” Cornell researchers, Myat Lin, lead author and researcher in the Hanson Lab, and ...