Meeting the global food demand of the future by engineering crop photosynthesis and yield potential

Cell

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 56-66

  Long, Stephen P ^a   Marshall Colon, Amy ^a   Zhu, Xin Guang ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c HUNAN HYBRID RICE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CROP; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HARVEST; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGRICULTURE; CATERING SERVICE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FOOD SUPPLY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS;

EID: 84925879465     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.03.019     Document Type: Review

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