Hjacking Photosynthesis

[The Grand Nudger]

Absolutely, and towards the end of the article it breifly touches on other productivity enhancing tech in the works for various crops, which, as a suite, lead to interesting opportunities.  Commercial ag is a lowest common denominator sort of thing.  Dominated by open field cultures.  However, if we could leverage this tech combined with carbon dumping (some cereal grains and fruit crops have been shown in field trials to produce more seeds when they are grown in co2 saturation) in a controlled environment it may tilt the scales further in favor of (relatively) small, greenhouse producers economically, as well as giving us a way to manage carbon emissions as a useful byproduct rather than a nearly unmitigated waste.  This also reduces disease and pest pressure which in turn reduces consumption pesticides/herbicides (though, granted..increases consumption of fungicides).   This isn't to say that open field will or can ever go away (this process could benefit them immensely, but it's difficult to dump c into a field), or that it will cease to be a major and important sector, but more efficient uses of space (a resource with a hard cap..earth ain't gettin bigger) and sunlight (until now largely untapped because of inability) is nothing -but- a good idea.

GE, cultural, systems, and novel cultivars working in concert as a combined front are the only way we can legitimately continue to feed our growing population without, in the process, destroying this rock....and we need to work on it now so that we'll have the solutions ready when they're no longer just a good idea, but a requirement- a sentiment I share with the lead in the project linked.