https://www.npr.org/sections/thesal...osynthesis-in-search-of-more-productive-crops
Now there is a good application of GMO technology.
They experimented with tobacco plants, just because tobacco is easy to work with. They inserted some new genes into these plants, which shut down the existing detoxification assembly line and set up a new one that's way more efficient. And they created super tobacco plants. "They grew faster, and they grew up to 40 percent bigger" than normal tobacco plants, Cavanagh says. These measurements were done both in greenhouses and open-air field plots.
Now there is a good application of GMO technology.