Homecoming: rewinding the reductive evolution of the chloroplast genome for increasing crop yields.
basic_science · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 34795241.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-021-26975-5 and PMC identifier 8602674.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Developing more productive and sustainable crops will be essential to achieving food security in coming decades. A core process in plant evolution has been the transfer of chloroplast-encoded genes to the nuclear genome. We propose reverting this process as a new approach to improve plant disease resistance and photosynthesis in future crops.
Medical subject headings
- Chloroplasts
- Crop Production
- Crops, Agricultural
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genome, Chloroplast
- Genome, Plant