Rubisco without the Calvin cycle improves the carbon efficiency of developing green seeds

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7018, 2004, Pages 779-782

  Schwender, Jörg ^a   Goffman, Fernando ^a   Ohlrogge, John B ^a   Shachar Hill, Yair ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; METABOLISM; OILS AND FATS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

GLYCOLYSIS; RESERVE MATERIALS;

CARBON;

1,5 BIPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; 1,5 BIPHOSPHATE OXYGENASE; ACETYL COENZYME A; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; CARBOXYLASE; FATTY ACID; OIL; OXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; MEASUREMENT; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPESEED; REDUCTION; SEED DEVELOPMENT;

ACETYL COENZYME A; BIOMASS; BRASSICA NAPUS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLOR; FATTY ACIDS; GLYCOLYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTATION; PLANT OILS; PYRUVIC ACID; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEEDS;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; METABOLISM; OIL; PLANTS; SEEDS;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

EID: 10644266747     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03145     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Levin, D. A. The oil content of seeds: An ecological perspective. Am. Nat. 108, 193-206 (1974).
2. Bassham, J. A. et al. The path of carbon in photosynthesis. XXI. The cyclic regeneration of carbon dioxide acceptor. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 67, 1760-1770 (1954).
3. Schwender, J., Ohlrogge, J. & Shachar-Hill, Y. Understanding flux in plant metabolic networks. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 7, 309-317 (2004).
4. Neuhaus, H. E. & Ernes, M. J. Non-photosynthetic metabolism in plastids. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 51, 111-140 (2000).
5. 2 refixation characteristics of developing canola seeds and silique wall. Aust. J. Plant Phys. 25, 377-386 (1998).
6. Schwender, J., Ohlrogge, J. B. & Shachar-Hill, Y. A flux model of glycolysis and the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway in developing Brassica napus embryos. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 29442-29453 (2003).
7. Ruuska, S. A., Schwender, J. & Ohlrogge, J. B. The capacity of green oilseeds to utilize photosynthesis to drive biosynthetic processes. Plant Physiol. 136, 2700-2709 (2004).
8. Goffman, F. D., Ruckle, M., Ohlrogge, J. B. & Shachar-Hill, Y. Carbon dioxide concentrations are very high in developing oil seeds. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 42. 703-708 (2004).
9. Schwender, J. & Ohlrogge, J. Probing in vivo metabolism by stable isotope labeling of storage lipids and proteins in developing Brassica napus embryos. Plant Physiol. 130, 347-361 (2002).
10. Schuster, S., Fell, D. & Dandekar, T. A general definition of metabolic pathways useful for systematic organization and analysis of complex metabolic networks. Nature Biotechnol. 18, 326-332 (2000).
11. Schuster, S., Dandekar, T. & Fell, D. A. Detection of elementary flux modes in biochemical networks: a promising tool for pathway analysis and metabolic engineering. Trends Biotechnol. 17, 53-60 (1999).