The world’s most prolific carbon-fixing enzyme is slowly getting better

Published on March 5, 2024

New research led by the University of Oxford has found that rubisco – the enzyme that fuels all life on Earth – is not stuck in an evolutionary rut after all. The largest analysis of rubisco ever has found that it is improving all the time – just very, very slowly. These insights could potentially open up new routes to strengthen food security. The results have been published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [PNAS].
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