Supercharging rice photosynthesis to increase yield

Rice (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima are the cultivated species) is a plant with C3 photosynthesis that is mostly grown in climates where photorespiration rates are high. The fact that rice is a C3 crop is often a surprise, given the prevalence in the tropics and subtropics of C4 photosynthesis in crops (maize, sorghum, sugar cane), fodder grasses (e.g. Cynodon dactylon), grass weeds (e.g. Imperata cylindrica) and sedges (e.g. Cyperus...