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Modeling-Guided High-Yielding Crops

When it comes to meeting the projected 70% increase in food demand in 2050, Dr. Xinguang Zhu considers photosynthetic efficiency to be an unexplored opportunity to deliver significant yield increases. Backing this are two recent studies reporting 15% and 40% increased crop biomass achieved by manipulating photosynthetic efficiency. The targets for both of those studies […]

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C2 rice outcompetes C3 and C4 rice

There were many great articles concerning cross-disciplinary research at the interface between plant biology, mathematics and computer science before the launch in silico Plants (isP). We are excited for isP to be home to these types of articles in the future. Over 3.5 billion people depend on rice for survival and future production must increase […]

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