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Strategies and tools to improve crop productivity by targeting photosynthesis.


ABSTRACT: Crop productivity needs to substantially increase to meet global food and feed demand for a rapidly growing world population. Agricultural technology developers are pursuing a variety of approaches based on both traditional technologies such as genetic improvement, pest control and mechanization as well as new technologies such as genomics, gene manipulation and environmental modelling to develop crops that are capable of meeting growing demand. Photosynthesis is a key biochemical process that, many suggest, is not yet optimized for industrial agriculture or the modern global environment. We are interested in identifying control points in maize photoassimilation that are amenable to gene manipulation to improve overall productivity. Our approach encompasses: developing and using novel gene discovery techniques, translating our discoveries into traits and evaluating each trait in a stepwise manner that reflects a modern production environment. Our aim is to provide step change advancement in overall crop productivity and deliver this new technology into the hands of growers.This article is part of the themed issue 'Enhancing photosynthesis in crop plants: targets for improvement'.

SUBMITTER: Nuccio ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5566877 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Strategies and tools to improve crop productivity by targeting photosynthesis.

Nuccio Michael L ML   Potter Laura L   Stiegelmeyer Suzy M SM   Curley Joseph J   Cohn Jonathan J   Wittich Peter E PE   Tan Xiaoping X   Davis Jimena J   Ni Junjian J   Trullinger Jon J   Hall Rick R   Bate Nicholas J NJ  

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20170901 1730


Crop productivity needs to substantially increase to meet global food and feed demand for a rapidly growing world population. Agricultural technology developers are pursuing a variety of approaches based on both traditional technologies such as genetic improvement, pest control and mechanization as well as new technologies such as genomics, gene manipulation and environmental modelling to develop crops that are capable of meeting growing demand. Photosynthesis is a key biochemical process that,  ...[more]

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