The effect of increasing temperature on crop photosynthesis: from enzymes to ecosystems

CE Moore, K Meacham-Hensold… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
As global land surface temperature continues to rise and heatwave events increase in
frequency, duration, and/or intensity, our key food and fuel cropping systems will likely face …

On the road to C4 rice: advances and perspectives

M Ermakova, FR Danila, RT Furbank… - The Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The international C4 rice consortium aims to introduce into rice a high capacity
photosynthetic mechanism, the C4 pathway, to increase yield. The C4 pathway is …

A cross‐scale analysis to understand and quantify the effects of photosynthetic enhancement on crop growth and yield across environments

A Wu, J Brider, FA Busch, M Chen… - Plant, Cell & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photosynthetic manipulation provides new opportunities for enhancing crop yield. However,
understanding and quantifying the importance of individual and multiple manipulations on …

Evolutionary trends in RuBisCO kinetics and their co‐evolution with CO2 concentrating mechanisms

C Iñiguez, S Capó‐Bauçà, Ü Niinemets… - The Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
RuBisCO‐catalyzed CO2 fixation is the main source of organic carbon in the biosphere. This
enzyme is present in all domains of life in different forms (III, II, and I) and its origin goes back …

Plant carbonic anhydrases: structures, locations, evolution, and physiological roles

RJ DiMario, H Clayton, A Mukherjee, M Ludwig… - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are zinc metalloenzymes that catalyze the interconversion of
CO 2 and HCO 3− and are ubiquitous in nature. Higher plants contain three evolutionarily …

The many types of carbonic anhydrases in photosynthetic organisms

RJ DiMario, MC Machingura, GL Waldrop, JV Moroney - Plant science, 2018 - Elsevier
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are enzymes that catalyze the interconversion of CO 2 and HCO
3−. In nature, there are multiple families of CA, designated with the Greek letters α through θ …

Engineering chloroplasts to improve Rubisco catalysis: prospects for translating improvements into food and fiber crops

RE Sharwood - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The uncertainty of future climate change is placing pressure on cropping systems to
continue to provide stable increases in productive yields. To mitigate future climates and the …

Surveying Rubisco diversity and temperature response to improve crop photosynthetic efficiency

DJ Orr, A Alcântara, MV Kapralov, PJ Andralojc… - Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The threat to global food security of stagnating yields and population growth makes
increasing crop productivity a critical goal over the coming decades. One key target for …

Strategies for improving C4 photosynthesis

S von Caemmerer, RT Furbank - Current opinion in plant biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Photosynthetic capacity must be increased to improve yield potential in C 4
crops.•C 4 photosynthesis concentrates CO 2 with complex anatomy and biochemistry.• …

Rubisco carboxylase/oxygenase: from the enzyme to the globe: a gas exchange perspective

S von Caemmerer - Journal of Plant Physiology, 2020 - Elsevier
Rubisco is the primary carboxylase of the photosynthetic process, the most abundant
enzyme in the biosphere, and also one of the best-characterized enzymes. Rubisco also …