… Rice Consortium is working toward introducing a higher-capacity photosynthetic mechanism—the
C 4 pathway—into rice … install C 4 photosynthesis in rice through different approaches, …

… a C4 rice, we need to identify those critical features absolutely required to achieve the high
efficiency of C4 … regulatory or structural proteins, is a critical step towards C4 rice engineering. …

… to install C4 photosynthesis in rice. Recently, an … rice and sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.)
mutants for ‘C4-ness’ to identify C3 plants that have acquired C4 characteristics or revertant C4 …

… Because the UDM enabled us to simultaneously interrogate the rice and maize gene
expression profiles, we could then exploit the evolutionary distance between maize and rice as a …

… To take advantage of this more efficient photosynthetic system at a time when the population
and food prices are soaring, there are efforts towards inserting the C4 mechanism such as …

… global food crop rice. Photosynthesis … 4 Rice Project. This project seeks to install the
biochemical and anatomical attributes necessary to support C 4 photosynthesis in the C 3 crop rice. …

… In this article, an update is provided on the approaches being taken towards metabolic
engineering and identifying lines of rice and sorghum mutants with modification to vein spacing. …

… in rice. The next steps toward engineering C 4 rice will require coordinated interpretation
of these experiments alongside an understanding of the related gene regulatory networks. …

… a minute fraction of those present in the rice leaf. In addition, whereas mesophyll cells … in
rice, which would diminish the efficiency of the C 4 cycle. To engineer the C 4 pathway into rice …

… is directed toward decarboxylation of malate in rice leaves. This would not be the case for the
rice C 3 -… It is likely that the reaction of overproduced rice enzyme attains equilibrium in the …