Manipulating photorespiration to increase plant productivity : recent advances and perspectives for crop improvement

Betti, Marco and Bauwe, Hermann and Busch, Florian A. and Fernie, Alisdair R. and Keech, Olivier and Levey, Myles and Ort, Donald R. and Parry, Martin Afan John and Sage, Rowan and Timm, Stefan and Walker, Berkley and Weber, Andreas P. M. (2016) Manipulating photorespiration to increase plant productivity : recent advances and perspectives for crop improvement. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67 (10). pp. 2977-2988. ISSN 0022-0957

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Abstract

Recycling of the 2-phosphoglycolate generated by the oxygenase reaction of Rubisco requires a complex and energy-consuming set of reactions collectively known as the photorespiratory cycle. Several approaches aimed at reducing the rates of photorespiratory energy or carbon loss have been proposed, based either on screening for natural variation or by means of genetic engineering. Recent work indicates that plant yield can be substantially improved by the alteration of photorespiratory fluxes or by engineering artificial bypasses to photorespiration. However, there is also evidence indicating that, under certain environmental and/or nutritional conditions, reduced photorespiratory capacity may be detrimental to plant performance. Here we summarize recent advances obtained in photorespiratory engineering and discuss prospects for these advances to be transferred to major crops to help address the globally increasing demand for food and biomass production.

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Journal Article
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Journal of Experimental Botany
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This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Botany following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Marco Betti, Hermann Bauwe, Florian A. Busch, Alisdair R. Fernie, Olivier Keech, Myles Levey, Donald R. Ort, Martin A. J. Parry, Rowan Sage, Stefan Timm, Berkley Walker, and Andreas P. M. Weber Manipulating photorespiration to increase plant productivity: recent advances and perspectives for crop improvement J. Exp. Bot. (2016) 67 (10): 2977-2988 first published online March 7, 2016 doi:10.1093/jxb/erw076 is available online at: http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/10/2977
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Subjects:
?? cropsfood productiongenetic engineeringphotorespirationrubiscoyield improvementplant sciencephysiology ??
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23 Jun 2016 08:26
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