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Researchers at the University of Illinois Long Lab may have come up with a plan to solve food insecurity, at least in the short term. According to Phys.org, the researchers believe that increasing Rubisco, the enzyme in plants that captures carbon dioxide and turns it into food the plant can use during photosynthesis, could boost crop productivity.
As the planet continues to get warmer, causing extreme weather such as droughts in some places and floods in others, crops are negatively affected, which threatens the global food supply. This is happening at the same time that the world…