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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.• …
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 …