RNA demethylation increases the yield and biomass of rice and potato plants in field trials

Q Yu, S Liu, L Yu, Y Xiao, S Zhang, X Wang, Y Xu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract RNA N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) modifications are essential in plants. Here, we
show that transgenic expression of the human RNA demethylase FTO in rice caused a more …

Light harvesting in oxygenic photosynthesis: Structural biology meets spectroscopy

R Croce, H van Amerongen - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND The harvesting of photons is the first step in photosynthesis, the biological
process that transforms solar energy into chemical energy. The photosynthetic membranes …

Third-generation biorefineries as the means to produce fuels and chemicals from CO2

Z Liu, K Wang, Y Chen, T Tan, J Nielsen - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Concerns regarding petroleum depletion and global climate change caused by greenhouse
gas emissions have spurred interest in renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. Third …

Genetic strategies for improving crop yields

J Bailey-Serres, JE Parker, EA Ainsworth, GED Oldroyd… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The current trajectory for crop yields is insufficient to nourish the world's population by 2050.
Greater and more consistent crop production must be achieved against a backdrop of …

Conversion of Escherichia coli to generate all biomass carbon from CO2

S Gleizer, R Ben-Nissan, YM Bar-On, N Antonovsky… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The living world is largely divided into autotrophs that convert CO 2 into biomass and
heterotrophs that consume organic compounds. In spite of widespread interest in renewable …

Designing future crops: challenges and strategies for sustainable agriculture

Z Tian, JW Wang, J Li, B Han - The Plant Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Crop production is facing unprecedented challenges. Despite the fact that the food supply
has significantly increased over the past half‐century,~ 8.9 and 14.3% people are still …

Integrated flux and pool size analysis in plant central metabolism reveals unique roles of glycine and serine during photorespiration

X Fu, LM Gregory, SE Weise, BJ Walker - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Photorespiration is an essential process juxtaposed between plant carbon and nitrogen
metabolism that responds to dynamic environments. Photorespiration recycles inhibitory …

Recent progress in genetically modified microalgae for enhanced carbon dioxide sequestration

B Barati, K Zeng, J Baeyens, S Wang, M Addy… - Biomass and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reducing carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions has been a hot research topic in recent years.
The integration of microalgae cultivation using CO 2 from power plants and factories has …

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 …

Crop adaptation to climate change as a consequence of long-term breeding

RJ Snowdon, B Wittkop, TW Chen, A Stahl - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Major global crops in high-yielding, temperate cropping regions are facing increasing
threats from the impact of climate change, particularly from drought and heat at critical …