Super Plants: Could Re-Wired Plants Be the New Cancer Killers?

"The idea of harnessing photosynthesis, a naturally occurring process that allows plants to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into food, for human use isn't new."

No, it's not new at all. It's called "agriculture."

Photosynthesis is not an "energy-creating process." That would violate the First Law of Thermodynamics.

Under exceptionally favorable circumstances, plants capture and store about 1% of the solar energy that hits them, so I don't know why they call it "one of the most efficient [...] processes."

I'm a plant biologist and I'm as pro-plant as can be, but you have to get the facts right or you can't make it work.

Daphne Rosenkrantz of WA 2:31AM February 07, 2012