Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 28, 2015, Pages 8529-8536

  Ort, Donald R ^a   Merchant, Sabeeha S ^b   Alric, Jean ^c   Barkan, Alice ^d   Blankenship, Robert E ^e   Bock, Ralph ^f   Croce, Roberta ^g   Hanson, Maureen R ^h   Hibberd, Julian M ⁱ   Long, Stephen P ^a   Moore, Thomas A ^j   Moroney, James ^k   Niyogi, Krishna K ^l,m,n   Parry, Martin A J ^o   Peralta Yahya, Pamela P ^p   Prince, Roger C ^q   Redding, Kevin E ^j   Spalding, Martin H ^r   Van Wijk, Klaas J ^h   Vermaas, Wim F J ^j,s   Von Caemmerer, Susanne ^t   Weber, Andreas P M ^u   Yeates, Todd O ^b   Yuan, Joshua S ^v   Zhu, Xin Guang ^w   more..

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Aix Marseille   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^j ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^o ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^p GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^q EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^r IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^u HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^v TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^w INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

more..

Author keywords

Carbon capture conversion; Enabling plant biotechnology tools; Light capture conversion; Smart canopy; Sustainable crop production

Indexed keywords

CARBON; BIOFUEL;

BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOENERGY; CANOPY; CARBON FIXATION; CROP; ENERGY CONVERSION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HARVEST; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; CATERING SERVICE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOFUELS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FOOD SUPPLY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84937127897     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1424031112     Document Type: Review

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