Targeted Knockdown of GDCH in Rice Leads to a Photorespiratory-Deficient Phenotype Useful as a Building Block for C4 Rice

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 919-932

  Lin, Hsiangchun ^a   Karki, Shanta ^a   Coe, Robert A ^a   Bagha, Shaheen ^b   Khoshravesh, Roxana ^b   Balahadia, C Paolo ^a   Ver Sagun, Julius ^a   Tapia, Ronald ^a   Israel, W Krystler ^a   Montecillo, Florencia ^a   De Luna, Albert ^a   Danila, Florence R ^a   Lazaro, Andrea ^a   Realubit, Czarina M ^a   Acoba, Michelle G ^a   Sage, Tammy L ^b   Von Caemmerer, Susanne ^c   Furbank, Robert T ^c   Cousins, Asaph B ^d   Hibberd, Julian M ^e   Quick, W Paul ^a,f   Covshoff, Sarah ^e   more..

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C4 rice; Glycine decarboxylase; Oryza sativa (rice); Photorespiration

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE CLEAVAGE SYSTEM; MICRORNA; PLANT PROTEIN; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

CARBON CYCLE; CELL RESPIRATION; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; ORYZA; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION RESPONSE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CARBON CYCLE; CELL RESPIRATION; CHLOROPLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GLYCINE DECARBOXYLASE COMPLEX; LIGHT; MICRORNAS; ORYZA; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

EID: 84971525478     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw033     Document Type: Article

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