Response to Comments on "Soybean photosynthesis and crop yield is improved by accelerating recovery from photoprotection"

We recently demonstrated that accelerating the relaxation of nonphotochemical quenching leads to higher soybean photosynthetic efficiency and yield. In response, Sinclair . assert that improved photosynthesis cannot improve crop yields and that there is only one valid experimental design for proving...

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Published inScience (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 379; no. 6634; p. eadf2189
Main Authors De Souza, Amanda P, Burgess, Steven J, Doran, Lynn, Manukyan, Lusya, Hansen, Jeffrey, Maryn, Nina, Leonelli, Lauribel, Niyogi, Krishna K, Stephen, Stephen P, Gotarkar, Dhananjay
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 24.02.2023
Subjects
Crops, Agricultural - genetics
Crops, Agricultural - physiology
Glycine max - genetics
Glycine max - physiology
Photosynthesis
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Summary:We recently demonstrated that accelerating the relaxation of nonphotochemical quenching leads to higher soybean photosynthetic efficiency and yield. In response, Sinclair . assert that improved photosynthesis cannot improve crop yields and that there is only one valid experimental design for proving a genetic improvement in yield. We explain here why neither assertion is valid.
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ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.adf2189