A faster Rubisco with potential to increase photosynthesis in crops

Nature

Volumn 513, Issue 7519, 2014, Pages 547-550

  Lin, Myat T ^a   Occhialini, Alessandro ^b   Andralojc, P John ^b   Parry, Martin A J ^b   Hanson, Maureen R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; RBCL PROTEIN, PLASTID;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP YIELD; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME; GENE TRANSFER; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; PROTEIN; RED ALGA; TOBACCO; VASCULAR PLANT;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; CHLOROPLAST; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; CROP; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; TOBACCO; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CYANOBACTERIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHODOPHYTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 6301; TRACHEOPHYTA;

BIOCATALYSIS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPLASTS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TOBACCO;

EID: 84908510011     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13776     Document Type: Article

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