Plant Enzymes Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:53:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Enzyme Allows Plants to Consume More CO2 and Save Water https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-enzyme-allows-plants-to-consume-more-co2-and-save-water-20091218/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-enzyme-allows-plants-to-consume-more-co2-and-save-water-20091218/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:53:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5788 Scientists at the University of California San Diego have discovered new plant enzymes that can allow plants to save water while consuming more CO2 from the atmosphere. The enzyme causes the plants to react to CO2 and change how they use their pores and by modifying the enzyme, scientists believe that could be developed more CO2- and drought-tolerant crops.

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