Feeding the world: improving photosynthetic efficiency for sustainable crop production

Abstract

This review explores the evidence to date that manipulation of the Calvin–Benson cycle, photorespiration, and electron transport can lead to improvement in biomass and seed yield. Future prospects are also discussed.

Photosynthesis and photosynthetic efficiencies along the terrestrial plant’s phylogeny: lessons for improving crop photosynthesis

“…Additionally, it is likely that some facilitating biochemical elements are also involved in the dynamic regulation of g m , including some aquaporins (Hanba et al, 2004;Flexas et al, 2006Flexas et al, , 2008 and carbonic anhydrases (Momayyezi and Guy, 2017;Guy et al, 2019). Finally, although the different components of photosynthetic photochemistry and biochemistry are sufficiently well known, their complexityinvolving many electron transporters, redox molecules, and soluble enzymes, among other biochemical factors (Anderson, 1975), together with the fact that they are regulate at the transcription and post-transcriptional levels by both nuclear and chloroplastic genes (Fankhausen and Aubry, 2017;Wang et al, 2017;Galm es et al, 2019) overall severely restricts easy manipulation to achieve photosynthetic improvements, although a few successful attempts have been reported (Lefebvre et al, 2005;Raines, 2011;Driever et al, 2017;Simkin et al, 2019).…”

Genotypic variation in source and sink traits affects the response of photosynthesis and growth to elevated atmospheric CO2

“…As a major staple food, rice will play an important role in this context. Increasing its photosynthetic capacity is thus a challenge for increasing crop yield (Makino, ; Simkin, López‐Calcagno, & Raines, ; Yoshida & Horie, ; Yoshida, Horie, & Shiraiwa, ) and the performance of cropping systems (Evans, ; Foyer, Ruban, & Nixon, ; Lawson, Kramer, & Raines, ; Long, Marshall‐Colon, & Zhu, ; Nuccio et al, ; Ort et al, ). Several studies reported inter‐ and intra‐specific variability in rice photosynthetic rate increase under elevated CO 2 (e‐CO 2 ) (Adachi et al, ; Makino & Mae, ; Wang et al, ; Zhu et al, ).…”

“…As a major staple food, rice will play an important role in this context. Increasing its photosynthetic capacity is thus a challenge for increasing crop yield (Makino, 2011;Simkin, López-Calcagno, & Raines, 2019;Yoshida & Horie, 2009;Yoshida, Horie, & Shiraiwa, 2008) and the performance of cropping systems (Evans, 2013;Foyer, Ruban, & Nixon, 2017;Lawson, Kramer, & Raines, 2012;Long, Marshall-Colon, & Zhu, 2015;Nuccio et al, 2017;Ort et al, 2015).…”

Genotypic variation in morphological source and sink traits affects the response of rice photosynthesis and growth to elevated atmospheric CO2

“…9 10 As a major staple food, rice will play an important role in this context. Increasing its 11 photosynthetic capacity is thus a challenge for increasing crop yield (Yoshida et al, 2008;12 Yoshida and Horie, 2009;Makino, 2011;Simkin et al, 2019) and the performance of 13 cropping systems (Lawson et al, 2012;Evans, 2013;Long et al, 2015;Ort et al, 2015;14 Foyer et al, 2017;Nuccio et al, 2017). Several studies reported inter and intra-specific 15 variability in rice photosynthetic rate increase under elevated CO 2 (e-CO 2 ) (Makino and Mae, 16 1999;Adachi et al, 2014;Zhu et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2015).…”