ArticleNature communications2026
Chloroplast genome editing of Rubisco boosts photosynthesis and plant growth.
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- Design Principles of Plant Thermotolerance: Integrating Photosynthesis, Reproduction, and Field Resilience in a Warming Climate.Plant, cell & environment · 2026Review
- Moderate overexpression of PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 improves photosynthetic performance and plant growth under fluctuating low light in Arabidopsis thaliana.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026Article
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- Chloroplast- and mitochondrion-specific random C-to-T mutagenesis for forward genetics of organelle genomes.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026Article
- Chloroplasts and Plant Sustainability: Key Roles and Emerging Insights.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Editing and synthetic engineering of chloroplast genomes.Plant communications · 2026Review
- Functional relocation of the maize chloroplast atpB gene to the nucleus restores photosynthetic competence to a gene-edited non-photosynthetic mutant.Plant biotechnology journal · 2025Article
- CRISPR/Cas9: a sustainable technology to enhance climate resilience in major Staple Crops.Frontiers in genome editing · 2025Review
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Abstract
Photosynthetic inefficiencies limit the productivity and sustainability of crop production and the resilience of agriculture to future societal and environmental challenges. Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) has inherently low catalytic efficiency, making it a key target for photosynthesis and crop improvement. However, introducing mutations to the chloroplast-encoded Rubisco large subunit (rbcL), which contains the enzyme's catalytic sites, is technically challenging. In this study, we successfully generate a range of chloroplast-genome-edited Arabidopsis thaliana plants targeting rbcL by a targeted base editor, ptpTALECD. The M309I and D397N substitutions in rbcL result in an increased Rubisco catalytic rate (k
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