Transgenic tobacco plants with improved cyanobacterial Rubisco expression but no extra assembly factors grow at near wild-type rates if provided with elevated CO2

Plant Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 148-160

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

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chloroplast transformation; CO2 concentration mechanism; Nicotiana tabacum; photosynthesis; Rubisco; Synechococcus elongatus

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBOXYLATION; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; RATE CONSTANTS; TOBACCO;

CHLOROPLAST TRANSFORMATION; CYANOBACTERIAL PROTEINS; NICOTIANA TABACUM; NITROGEN-USE EFFICIENCY; PHOTOSYNTHETIC CHARACTERISTICS; RUBISCO; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; TRANSGENIC TOBACCO PLANTS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHAPERONE; NITROGEN; RBCX PROTEIN, CYANOBACTERIA; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

CARBON CYCLE; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPLASTS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84961288248     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13098     Document Type: Article

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