Designing a more productive corn, able to cope with future climates

An international research team has found they can increase corn productivity by targeting the enzyme in charge of capturing CO2 from the atmosphere.

Meisha Holloway-Phillips

Meisha Holloway-Phillips talks about her time working with Graham Farquhar

Blue-green algae promises to help boost food crop yields

Scientists at ANU have engineered tiny carbon-capturing engines from blue-green algae into plants, in a breakthrough that promises to help boost the yields of important food crops such as wheat, cowpeas and cassava.