Designing artificial synthetic promoters for accurate, smart, and versatile gene expression in plants

E Yasmeen, J Wang, M Riaz, L Zhang, K Zuo - Plant Communications, 2023 - cell.com
With the development of high-throughput biology techniques and artificial intelligence, it has
become increasingly feasible to design and construct artificial biological parts, modules …

Plant promoters: their identification, characterization, and role in gene regulation

L Villao-Uzho, T Chávez-Navarrete, R Pacheco-Coello… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
One of the strategies to overcome diseases or abiotic stress in crops is the use of improved
varieties. Genetic improvement could be accomplished through different methods, including …

Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis

J Swift, LH Luginbuehl, L Hua, TB Schreier, RM Donald… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
C4 photosynthesis is used by the most productive plants on the planet, and compared with
the ancestral C3 pathway, it confers a 50% increase in efficiency. In more than 60 C4 …

Photosynthesis and food security: the evolving story of C4 rice

R Furbank, S Kelly, S von Caemmerer - Photosynthesis Research, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Traditional “Green Revolution” cereal breeding strategies to improve yield are now
reaching a plateau in our principal global food crop rice. Photosynthesis has now become a …

A carboxysome‐based CO2 concentrating mechanism for C3 crop chloroplasts: advances and the road ahead

ND Nguyen, SB Pulsford, B Förster, S Rottet… - The Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of the carboxysome‐based CO2 concentrating mechanism (CCM) into crop
plants has been modelled to significantly increase crop yields. This projection serves as …

Advances in plant synthetic biology approaches to control expression of gene circuits

J Koukara, KK Papadopoulou - Biochemical and Biophysical Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
The applications of synthetic biology range from creating simple circuits to monitor an
organism's state to complex circuits capable of reconstructing aspects of life. The latter has …

Single nuclei sequencing reveals C4 photosynthesis is based on rewiring of ancestral cell identity networks

J Swift, LH Luginbuehl, TB Schreier, RM Donald… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
In multicellular systems changes to the patterning of gene expression drive modifications in
cell function and trait evolution. One striking example is found in more than sixty plant …

Perspectives on improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield

R Croce, E Carmo-Silva, YB Cho, M Ermakova… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Improving photosynthesis, the fundamental process by which plants convert light energy into
chemical energy, is a key area of research with great potential for enhancing sustainable …

Gibberellins: Extending the Green Revolution

JM Robil, P Awale, P McSteen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Green Revolution more than doubled crop yields and food production in crop
species such as wheat and rice. This was primarily accomplished by altering the gibberellin …

[HTML][HTML] Promoters, Key Cis-Regulatory Elements, and Their Potential Applications in Regulation of Cadmium (Cd) in Rice

X Xu, Q Mo, Z Cai, Q Jiang, D Zhou, J Yi - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Rice (Oryza sativa), a globally significant staple crop, is crucial for ensuring human food
security due to its high yield and quality. However, the intensification of industrial activities …