Researchers' model helps design more productive plants
By Greg Kline
Sunday November 25, 2007
Designer soybeans and other plants that harvest the sun more efficiently to improve productivity are being developed by some University of Illinois researchers without growing anything, in soil anyway.
The better plants are sprouting in silicon microchips fertilized by a computer model that simulates every step of photosynthesis for the first time.
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