Quoted: ?We hope to create a toolkit of phytochromes that can eventually be used to control agriculture ? how plants grow, when they flower, when they die,? said Richard Vierstra, a plant geneticist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who described the phytochrome?s structure in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He and his colleagues ?want to pack more plants per acre? and even grow seasonal crops year-round ? possibly saving space and other resources, as well as increasing food security.
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