Important food-production breakthrough to give farmers 20% boost and help cure starvation

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Key snip

“We’ve been looking at photosynthesis and why it might be inefficient for 30 years,” researcher told BBC News. “There was huge scepticism that we could improve it, so showing that we can do this completely changes the ground and contributes hugely to our ability to increase global food supply.”

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Directly or indirectly, all of our food comes from photosynthesis. It is a multistage chemical process, which uses energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugars that fuel a plant’s growth.

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