Strategies and tools to improve crop productivity by targeting photosynthesis.

ABSTRACT: Crop productivity needs to substantially increase to meet global food and feed demand for a rapidly growing world population. Agricultural technology developers are pursuing a variety of approaches based on both traditional technologies such as genetic improvement, pest control and mechanization as well as new technologies such as genomics, gene manipulation and environmental modelling to develop crops that are capable of meeting growing demand. Photosynthesis is a key biochemical process that, many suggest, is not yet optimized for industrial agriculture or the modern global environment. We are interested in identifying control points in maize photoassimilation that are amenable to gene manipulation to improve overall productivity. Our approach encompasses: developing and using novel gene

SUBMITTER: Nuccio ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5566877 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature