Attempts to improve photosynthetic efficiency is not exactly novel, for example there is the IRRI C4 rice project[0] or various research on RuBisCO efficiency[1

Attempts to improve photosynthetic efficiency is not exactly novel, for example there is the IRRI C4 rice project[0] or various research on RuBisCO efficiency[1][2]. Speeding up the development process and trying to bring all the different improvements under one umbrella might be. [0] http://photosynthome.irri.org/C4rice/index.php/component/content/article/19-about/56-what-is-c4-rice http://photosynthome.irri.org/C4rice/index.php/component/con... [1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6368/1272 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6368/1272 [2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6422/eaat9077 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6422/eaat9077