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Photosynthesis is surprisingly inefficient, only of the order of 1 to 2%. And one of the main culprits is an enzyme called Robisco.

Laura Barter, a biological chemist at Imperial College London.

Scientific American editor-in-chief Mar Mariette de Christina recorded these comments

when they chatted at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos. That enzyme Rubisco? Because it's

vital for the first major step in photosynthesis, it's probably the most abundant enzyme on the planet.

And it's worked fine for a very long time. But for our needs, we humans

want it to work better. And I'm very interested in trying to improve upon this enzyme because

it's both slow and it also suffers from a lack of specificity. And it can catalyze a reaction with

carbon dioxide that you want, but also a competing

reaction with oxygen. And so we're looking at ways that we can enhance the local concentration

of carbon dioxide around Robisco to increase its efficiency and ultimately increase crop yield.

Barta explained how she's trying to do that at a talk she gave at the forum.

There are a suite of enzymes that are involved in the capture and release of carbon dioxide,

and we're synthesizing some molecules that can mimic this behavior,

with the hope that they can be sprayed on crops much in the same way as a fertilizer,

and will be taken up by the plant and will

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