TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese advisers said on Thursday they had begin a way to accomplish bulb leaves blot added carbon dioxide in an addition that may one day advice affluence all-around abating and addition aliment production.The Kyoto University aggregation begin that assimilation germinated seeds in a protein band-aid aloft the cardinal of pores, or stomas, on the leaves that drag CO2 and absolution oxygen, said arch researcher Ikuko Hara-Nishimura.
"A larger number means there are more intake windows for carbon dioxide, contributing to lowering the density of the gas," she told AFP by telephone.
Another effect is higher starch production in photosynthesis, the process in which green plants use CO2 and water to produce sugar and other organic compounds.
"It could lead to higher production of food and materials for biofuel," said Hara-Nishimura, a biology professor at Kyoto University's Graduate School in western Japan.
In the experiments, the team used budding leaves of thale cress, a plant formally called Arabidopsis, which has a short life span of two months and is widely used as a model plant in biology.
They found that the number of pores multiplied relative to the concentration of the solution of the protein, which the researchers named Stomagen, achieving a maximum of four times the number of pores of an untreated plant.
An ideal increase would be two-to-three times, as too many pores impede the functions of other cells in the surface of the plant, Hara-Nishimura said.
Stomagen is easy but costly to produce chemically, and the team is working on a cheaper way to make it, Hara-Nishimura said, adding that an alternative may be to genetically modify plants to have more pores.
