Comment Re:Of course it's tobacco. (Score 1) 2
Plant geneticist here. This isn't about profit. Tobacco is just easy and fast to work with. It's one of the lab rats of the plant world, originally chosen because it was a valuable crop, but now used because it's a well developed model organism. Given the similarity of photosynthesis in tobacco and other C3 plants, this approach will likely work in just about any plant including crop (food) plants.
This is a very exciting finding as agriculture is a major contributor to GHG emissions. Anything that increase agricultural efficiency without externalized costs is a huge win for the planet.