The pyrenoid: the eukaryotic CO2-concentrating organelle

S He, VL Crans, MC Jonikas - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The pyrenoid is a phase-separated organelle that enhances photosynthetic carbon
assimilation in most eukaryotic algae and the land plant hornwort lineage. Pyrenoids …

The nitrogen cost of photosynthesis

JR Evans, VC Clarke - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Global food security depends on three main cereal crops (wheat, rice and maize) achieving
and maintaining high yields, as well as increasing their future yields. Fundamental to the …

Engineering α-carboxysomes into plant chloroplasts to support autotrophic photosynthesis

T Chen, M Hojka, P Davey, Y Sun, GF Dykes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The growth in world population, climate change, and resource scarcity necessitate a
sustainable increase in crop productivity. Photosynthesis in major crops is limited by the …

Far‐red photons have equivalent efficiency to traditional photosynthetic photons: Implications for redefining photosynthetically active radiation

S Zhen, B Bugbee - Plant, cell & environment, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Far‐red photons (701–750 nm) are abundant in sunlight but are considered
inactive for photosynthesis and are thus excluded from the definition of photosynthetically …

[HTML][HTML] Natural carbon fixation and advances in synthetic engineering for redesigning and creating new fixation pathways

SS Correa, J Schultz, KJ Lauersen… - Journal of advanced …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Autotrophic carbon fixation is the primary route through which organic carbon
enters the biosphere, and it is a key step in the biogeochemical carbon cycle. The Calvin …

Rubisco condensate formation by CcmM in β-carboxysome biogenesis

H Wang, X Yan, H Aigner, A Bracher, ND Nguyen… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Cells use compartmentalization of enzymes as a strategy to regulate metabolic pathways
and increase their efficiency. The α-and β-carboxysomes of cyanobacteria contain ribulose …

Advances in the bacterial organelles for CO2 fixation

LN Liu - Trends in Microbiology, 2022 - cell.com
Carboxysomes are a family of bacterial microcompartments (BMCs), present in all
cyanobacteria and some proteobacteria, which encapsulate the primary CO 2-fixing …

Protein‐Based Controllable Nanoarchitectonics for Desired Applications

L Li, Y Zhang, Y Wu, Z Wang, W Cui… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Controllable protein nanoarchitectonics refers to the process of manipulating and controlling
the assembly of proteins at the nanoscale to achieve domain‐limited and accurate spatial …

Improving photosynthesis, plant productivity and abiotic stress tolerance–current trends and future perspectives

B Nowicka, J Ciura, R Szymańska, J Kruk - Journal of plant physiology, 2018 - Elsevier
With unfavourable climate changes and an increasing global population, there is a great
need for more productive and stress-tolerant crops. As traditional methods of crop …

Engineering the plastid and mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants

P Maliga - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
Engineering the plastid genome based on homologous recombination is well developed in
a few model species. Homologous recombination is also the rule in mitochondria, but …