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Improving photosynthetic efficiency for greater yield.
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Increasing the yield potential of the major food grain crops has contributed very significantly to a rising food supply over the past 50 years, which has until recently more than kept pace with rising global demand. Whereas improved photosynthetic efficiency has played only a minor role in the remarkable increases in productivity achieved in the last half century, further increases in yield potential will rely in large part on improved photosynthesis. Here we examine inefficiencies in photosynthetic energy transduction in crops from light interception to carbohydrate synthesis, and how classical breeding, systems biology, and synthetic biology are providing new opportunities to develop more productive germplasm. Near-term opportunities include improving the display of leaves in crop canopies to avoid light saturation of individual leaves and further investigation of a photorespiratory bypass that has already improved the productivity of model species. Longer-term opportunities include engineering into plants carboxylases that are better adapted to current and forthcoming CO 2 concentrations, and the use of modeling to guide molecular optimization of resource investment among the components of the photosynthetic apparatus, to maximize carbon gain without increasing crop inputs. Collectively, these changes have the potential to more than double the yield potential of our major crops.
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“In another case, RuBisCO, often considered an inefficient enzyme due to relatively low turnover rates in CO2 fixation at the core of the Calvin Cycle, can be can successfully engineered to boost photosynthetic efficiency in both microalgae and cyanobacteria [34].”
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“These advancements in 𝜀i and 𝜀p leave only modest potential for further improvement of Yp (Zhu et al., 2010).”
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“However, 𝜀c operates substantially below the theoretical maxima for C3 (0.094) and C4 (0.123; Zhu et al., 2010) crop canopies and therefore limits yield potential (Zhu et al., 2008, 2010)”
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“Reducing chlorophyll (chl) content may improve the conversion efficiency of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation into biomass and therefore yield in dense monoculture crops by improving light penetration and distribution within the canopy.”
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“Reducing leaf chlorophyll (chl) content has been proposed as a strategy to improve 𝜀c in crop canopies.”
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“By distributing light more proportionately throughout leaf layers (Zhu et al., 2010; Ort et al., 2011, 2015), absorbed PPFD could be used more efficiently by mitigating both light oversaturation at the top of canopy and light limitation within the canopy.”
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“To account for light lost by reflectance and transmission, the amount of light available to the model was set to be 90% of the PPFD (Zhu et al., 2010).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zhu, X.-G., Long, S. P., & Ort, D. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Agricultural Research Service (US)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Plant Biology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2010-06-02
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 235-261
- ISSN
- 1543-5008 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2123
- OpenAlex
- W2117225984
- Cited by
- 1,902
- References
- 150
- Citations by year
- 2026: 115 · 2025: 164 · 2024: 163 · 2023: 139 · 2022: 184 · 2021: 151 · 2020: 142 · 2019: 122 · 2018: 112 · 2017: 111 · 2016: 116 · 2015: 98 · 2014: 93 · 2013: 58 · 2012: 66
- FWCI
- 5.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Annual Review of Plant Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Keywords
- photosynthetic efficiency, crop yield potential, light interception, Rubisco, light saturation, systems biology, synthetic biology, crop breeding, carbon gain
- MeSH terms
- Carboxy-Lyases, Photosynthesis, Plant Leaves, Crops, Agricultural
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