Groover, Evan D.
Wang, Flora Z. https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2874-0942
John, Amala
Shen, Jianqiang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7997-7281
Lemaux, Peggy G. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2842-4724
Savage, David F. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0042-2257
Niyogi, Krishna K. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7229-2071
Article History
Accepted: 4 May 2026
First Online: 26 May 2026
Competing interests
: 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 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 University of California has applied for a patent on a protoplast-based platform for screening possible edits of cis -regulatory elements (“Improving photosynthetic performance of plants”) on which E.D.G., F.Z.W., K.K.N. and D.F.S. are inventors. The other authors declare no competing interests.