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Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Summary: Most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch, and to deal with it, evolved an energy-expensive process called photorespiration that drastically suppresses their yield potential. Researchers reportthat crops engineered

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