Rewiring gene circuitry for plant improvement

AT Borowsky, J Bailey-Serres - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Aspirations for high crop growth and yield, nutritional quality and bioproduction of materials
are challenged by climate change and limited adoption of new technologies. Here, we …

GOLDEN2‐LIKE transcription factors: A golden ticket to improve crops?

T Hernández‐Verdeja, MR Lundgren - Plants, People, Planet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement The human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in the next
30 years, increasing the strain on our already precarious food system. Climate change is …

The pleiotropic functions of GOLDEN2-LIKE transcription factors in plants

M Zheng, X Wang, J Luo, B Ma, D Li… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The regulation of gene expression is crucial for biological plant growth and development,
with transcription factors (TFs) serving as key switches in this regulatory mechanism …

Transcriptome dynamics in developing leaves from C3 and C4 Flaveria species

K Billakurthi, TJ Wrobel, U Gowik, A Bräutigam… - The Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
SUMMARY C4 species have evolved more than 60 times independently from C3 ancestors.
This multiple and parallel evolution of the complex C4 trait suggests common underlying …

Single-nuclei sequencing of Moricandia arvensis reveals bundle sheath cell function in the photorespiratory shuttle of C3-C4 intermediate Brassicaceae

S Triesch, V Reichel-Deland, JM Valderrama Martín… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Spatially confined gene expression determines cell identity and is fundamental to complex
plant traits. In the evolutionary transition from C3 to the more efficient C4 photosynthesis …

A rapid and robust leaf ablation method to visualize bundle sheath cell chloroplasts in C3 species

K Billakurthi, JM Hibberd - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Background It has been proposed that engineering the C4 photosynthetic pathway into C3
crops could significantly increase yield. This goal requires an increase in the chloroplast …