Sunlight filtering through a corn canopy. (IMAGE)

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sunlight filtering through a corn canopy.

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A group of RIPE researchers have found, for the first time, that chloroplast size manipulations are unlikely to be an option for increasing crop photosynthetic efficiency.

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RIPE Project/Katarzyna Glowacka

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