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 …

30 years of free‐air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE): What have we learned about future crop productivity and its potential for adaptation?

EA Ainsworth, SP Long - Global change biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Free‐air CO2 enrichment (FACE) allows open‐air elevation of [CO2] without altering the
microclimate. Its scale uniquely supports simultaneous study from physiology and yield to …

The nitrogen cost of photosynthesis

JR Evans, VC Clarke - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Global food security depends on three main cereal crops (wheat, rice and maize) achieving
and maintaining high yields, as well as increasing their future yields. Fundamental to the …

Rubisco deactivation and chloroplast electron transport rates co-limit photosynthesis above optimal leaf temperature in terrestrial plants

AP Scafaro, BC Posch, JR Evans, GD Farquhar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Net photosynthetic CO2 assimilation rate (A n) decreases at leaf temperatures above a
relatively mild optimum (T opt) in most higher plants. This decline is often attributed to …

A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models

A Rogers, BE Medlyn, JS Dukes, G Bonan… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate representation of photosynthesis in terrestrial biosphere models (TBM s) is
essential for robust projections of global change. However, current representations vary …

Targeted base editing in the plastid genome of Arabidopsis thaliana

I Nakazato, M Okuno, H Yamamoto, Y Tamura, T Itoh… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
Bacterial cytidine deaminase fused to the DNA binding domains of transcription activator-
like effector nucleases was recently reported to transiently substitute a targeted C to a T in …

Photorespiration in the context of Rubisco biochemistry, CO2 diffusion and metabolism

FA Busch - The Plant Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Photorespiratory metabolism is essential for plants to maintain functional photosynthesis in
an oxygen‐containing environment. Because the oxygenation reaction of Rubisco is …

Nuclear-encoded synthesis of the D1 subunit of photosystem II increases photosynthetic efficiency and crop yield

JH Chen, ST Chen, NY He, QL Wang, Y Zhao, W Gao… - Nature Plants, 2020 - nature.com
In photosynthetic organisms, the photosystem II (PSII) complex is the primary target of
thermal damage. Plants have evolved a repair process to prevent the accumulation of …

Plant RuBisCo assembly in E. coli with five chloroplast chaperones including BSD2

H Aigner, RH Wilson, A Bracher, L Calisse, JY Bhat… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Plant RuBisCo, a complex of eight large and eight small subunits, catalyzes the fixation of
CO2 in photosynthesis. The low catalytic efficiency of RuBisCo provides strong motivation to …

Revisiting trade-offs between Rubisco kinetic parameters

AI Flamholz, N Prywes, U Moran, D Davidi… - Biochemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Rubisco is the primary carboxylase of the Calvin cycle, the most abundant enzyme in the
biosphere, and one of the best-characterized enzymes. On the basis of correlations between …