Photosystem II Subunit S overexpression increases the efficiency of water use in a field-grown crop

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Głowacka, Katarzyna ^a,b   Kromdijk, Johannes ^a   Kucera, Katherine ^a   Xie, Jiayang ^a   Cavanagh, Amanda P ^a   Leonelli, Lauriebeth ^c   Leakey, Andrew D B ^a   Ort, Donald R ^a   Niyogi, Krishna K ^c,d   Long, Stephen P ^a,e  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS   (Poland)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; PLANT PROTEIN; WATER;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CROP PLANT; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD PRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; TOBACCO; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER USE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CROP PRODUCTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II SUBUNIT S GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT WATER USE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VASCULAR PLANT; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER LOSS; WATER VAPOR; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLANT STOMA;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPLASTS; CROP PRODUCTION; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STOMATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TOBACCO; WATER;

EID: 85043282808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03231-x     Document Type: Article

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