Groover, Evan D.
Ding, David
Wang, Flora Z. https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2874-0942
Benegas, Gonzalo
Rivera, Joseph
Schwartz, Shahar
Chen, Stephen
Moubarak, Michael F.
Georgieva, Viktoriya https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5843-726X
Lemaux, Peggy G.
Staskawicz, Brian J.
Niyogi, Krishna K. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7229-2071
Song, Yun S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0734-9868
Savage, David F. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0042-2257
Article History
Received: 12 September 2025
Accepted: 5 February 2026
First Online: 27 March 2026
Competing interests
: D.F.S. is a cofounder and scientific advisory board member of Scribe Therapeutics. B.J.S. is a scientific cofounder of and serves on the board of directors for Mendel Biotechnology. He also serves on the scientific advisory boards of Verinomics and the Sainsbury Laboratory. D.F.S., K.K.N., E.D.G., D.D. and F.Z.W. are authors on a patent application filed by the University of California, Berkeley related to this work. The University of California has been granted patents related to improving photosynthesis (‘Transgenic plants with increased photosynthesis efficiency and growth’ and ‘Plants with increased water-use efficiency’) and has applied for a patent on genome editing of photosynthesis (‘Methods of screening for plant gain-of-function mutations and compositions therefor’) on which K.K.N. is an inventor. The other authors declare no competing interests.