ArticlePlant communications2023
A synthetic light-inducible photorespiratory bypass enhances photosynthesis to improve rice growth and grain yield.
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- Divergent regulation of rice yield by carbon nanomaterials via biomass allocation and seed setting rate.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Shortcutting photorespiration: avenues and challenges toward realizing higher-yielding photorespiratory bypass crops.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Straw-returning of Triticale to field improved the yield of foxtail millet efficiently by modulating soil physicochemical traits and fungal microbiome assembly.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
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- Engineering a dual-cycle carbon fixation system for enhanced biomass and lipid production in plants.Plant communications · 2025Article
- Move over endosymbionts, peroxisomes pass electrons too.Biochemical Society transactions · 2025Review
- Strategies to improve photosynthesis by modifying the RuBisCO system and its limitations.Molecular biology reports · 2025Review
- Synthetic photorespiratory bypass more stably increases potato yield per plant by improving photosynthesis.Plant biotechnology journal · 2025Article
- Introduction of a phenylalanine sink in fast growing cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 11801 leads to improved PSII efficiency, linear electron transport, and carbon fixation.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2025Article
- Synthetic photorespiratory bypass improves rice productivity by enhancing photosynthesis and nitrogen uptake.The Plant cell · 2024Article
- Photosynthetic Electron Flows and Networks of Metabolite Trafficking to Sustain Metabolism in Photosynthetic Systems.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
Bioengineering of photorespiratory bypasses is an effective strategy for improving plant productivity by modulating photosynthesis. In previous work, two photorespiratory bypasses, the GOC and GCGT bypasses, increased photosynthetic rates but decreased seed-setting rate in rice (Oryza sativa), probably owing to excess photosynthate accumulation in the stem. To solve this bottleneck, we successfully developed a new synthetic photorespiratory bypass (called the GMA bypass) in rice chloroplasts by introducing Oryza sativa glycolate oxidase 1 (OsGLO1), Cucurbita maxima malate synthase (CmMS), and Oryza sativa ascorbate peroxidase7 (OsAPX7) into the rice genome using a high-efficiency transgene stacking system. Unlike the GOC and GCGT bypass genes driven by constitutive promoters, OsGLO1 in GMA plants was driven by a light-inducible Rubisco small subunit promoter (pRbcS); its expression dynamically changed in response to light, producing a more moderate increase in photosynthate. Photosynthetic rates were significantly increased in GMA plants, and grain yields were significantly improved under greenhouse and field conditions. Transgenic GMA rice showed no reduction in seed-setting rate under either test condition, unlike previous photorespiratory-bypass rice, probably reflecting proper modulation of the photorespiratory bypass. Together, these results imply that appropriate engineering of the GMA bypass can enhance rice growth and grain yield without affecting seed-setting rate.
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