Plants could be supercharged to absorb more CO2
Erb and his team figured out a way to make plants more efficient at absorbing carbon, so that they consumed more carbon in a shorter amount of time.
"If you think about plants, they're efficient CO2-fixing filters, but they are not fast," Erb said. "I think there is a chance to improve existing biology with synthetic biology."
Erb's team identified 17 enzymes from nine different organisms, re-engineering three of them, that had an amped up carbon consumption. When those enzymes worked together as a team, they surpassed not only plants' natural enzymes when it can to carbon consumption, but also themselves individually.
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