NSF grant awarded to study what happens when plants “overspend”
Researchers Berkley Walker and Hiroshi Maeda have been awarded a total of $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how plants compensate when they “overspend” the carbon that they take in during photosynthesis. Plants make their own food through photosynthesis. They grab carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to make sugars and other compounds, which …