Engineering photorespiration in chloroplasts: a novel strategy for increasing biomass production

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 437-440

  Khan, Muhammad Sarwar ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; METABOLISM; OXYGENATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ENGINEERING PHOTORESPIRATION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC CARBON METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

PIGMENTS;

GLYCERIC ACID; GLYCOLIC ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOENGINEERING; BIOMASS; CARBON METABOLISM; CATABOLISM; CHLOROPLAST; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLYCOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORESPIRATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SHORT SURVEY;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOMASS; CELL RESPIRATION; CHLOROPLASTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 34548852557     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2007.08.007     Document Type: Short Survey

References (16)

1. Cleland W.W., et al. Mechanism of Rubisco: the carbamate as general base. Chem. Rev. 98 (1998) 549-561
2. Spreitzer P.J. Questions about the complexity of chloroplast ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. Photosynth. Res. 60 (1999) 29-42
3. Bock R., and Khan M.S. Taming plastids for a green future. Trends Biotechnol. 22 (2004) 311-318
4. Wingler A., et al. Photorespiration: metabolic pathways and their role in stress protection. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 355 (2000) 1517-1529
5. 2 concentrations. J. Exp. Bot. 46 (1995) 1389-1396
6. 4 Photosynthesis: an unlikely process full of surprises. Plant Cell Physiol. 33 (1992) 333-342
7. 4-type Photosynthesis in Hydrilla verticillata. Plant Physiol. 115 (1997) 1681-1689
8. Tolbert N.E. The C2 oxidative photosynthetic carbon cycle. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 48 (1997) 1-25
9. Kebeish R., et al. Chloroplastic photorespiratory bypass increases photosynthesis and biomass production in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nat. Biotechnol. 25 (2007) 593-599
10. Somerville C.R., and Ogren W.L. Genetic modification of photorespiration. Trends Biochem. Sci. 7 (1982) 171-174
11. Somerville C.R. The analysis of photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation and photorespiration by mutant selection. Oxford Surveys Plant Mol. Cell Biol. 1 (1984) 103-131
12. 3 plants from photooxidation. Nature 384 (1996) 557-560
13. Lord J.M. Glycolate oxidoreductase in Escherichia coli. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 267 (1972) 227-237
14. Pellicer M.T., et al. The glc locus of Escherichia coli: characterization of genes encoding the subunits of glycolate oxidase and the glc regulator protein. J. Bacteriol. 178 (1996) 2051-2059
15. Leegood R.C., et al. The regulation and control of photorespiration. J. Exp. Bot. 46 (1995) 1397-1414
16. Eisenhut M., et al. The plant-like C2 glycolate cycle and the bacterial-like glycerate pathway cooperate in phosphoglycolate metabolism in cyanobacteria. Plant Physiol. 142 (2006) 333-342