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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2020

A wish list for synthetic biology in photosynthesis research.

Xin-Guang Zhu, Donald R Ort, Martin A J Parry, Susanne von Caemmerer

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Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Xin-Guang ZhuInstitute of Plant Physiology and Ecology and Center for Excellence for Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Donald R OrtDepartments of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Martin A J ParryLancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
Susanne von CaemmererResearch School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Acton, Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This perspective summarizes the presentations and discussions at the ' International Symposium on Synthetic Biology in Photosynthesis Research', which was held in Shanghai in 2018. Leveraging the current advanced understanding of photosynthetic systems, the symposium brain-stormed about the redesign and engineering of photosynthetic systems for translational goals and evaluated available new technologies/tools for synthetic biology as well as technological obstacles and new tools that would be needed to overcome them. Four major research areas for redesigning photosynthesis were identified: (i) mining natural variations of photosynthesis; (ii) coordinating photosynthesis with pathways utilizing photosynthate; (iii) reconstruction of highly efficient photosynthetic systems in non-host species; and (iv) development of new photosynthetic systems that do not exist in nature. To expedite photosynthesis synthetic biology research, an array of new technologies and community resources need to be developed, which include expanded modelling capacities, molecular engineering toolboxes, model species, and phenotyping tools.

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PhotosynthesisSynthetic BiologyChinaArtificial photosynthesisC4 engineeringcarboxysomefluorescence marker proteinsnatural variationphotosynthesissynthetic biology

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PMID32060550
PMCPMC7134917

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