Transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: Current understanding, applications, and perspectives

Y Yang, Q Kong, ARQ Lim, S Lu, H Zhao, L Guo… - Plant …, 2022 - cell.com
Plants produce and accumulate triacylglycerol (TAG) in their seeds as an energy reservoir to
support the processes of seed germination and seedling development. Plant seed oils are …

Photorespiration in the context of Rubisco biochemistry, CO2 diffusion and metabolism

FA Busch - The Plant Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Photorespiratory metabolism is essential for plants to maintain functional photosynthesis in
an oxygen‐containing environment. Because the oxygenation reaction of Rubisco is …

The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function

S Wicke, GM Schneeweiss, CW Depamphilis… - Plant molecular …, 2011 - Springer
This review bridges functional and evolutionary aspects of plastid chromosome architecture
in land plants and their putative ancestors. We provide an overview on the structure and …

Rubisco function, evolution, and engineering

N Prywes, NR Phillips, OT Tuck… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Carbon fixation is the process by which CO2 is converted from a gas into biomass. The
Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle (CBB) is the dominant carbon-consuming pathway on …

Second generation biofuels: high-efficiency microalgae for biodiesel production

PM Schenk, SR Thomas-Hall, E Stephens, UC Marx… - Bioenergy …, 2008 - Springer
The use of fossil fuels is now widely accepted as unsustainable due to depleting resources
and the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the environment that have already exceeded …

Sodium as nutrient and toxicant

HJ Kronzucker, D Coskun, LM Schulze, JR Wong… - Plant and soil, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background Sodium (Na+) is one of the most intensely researched ions in plant
biology and has attained a reputation for its toxic qualities. Following the principle of …

Photosynthesis in non‐foliar tissues: implications for yield

AJ Simkin, M Faralli, S Ramamoorthy… - The Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Photosynthesis is currently a focus for crop improvement. The majority of this work has taken
place and been assessed in leaves, and limited consideration has been given to the …

Compartmentation of triacylglycerol accumulation in plants

KD Chapman, JB Ohlrogge - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2012 - ASBMB
Triacylglycerols from plants, familiar to most people as vegetable oils, supply 25% of dietary
calories to the developed world and are increasingly a source for renewable biomaterials …

Why are most organelle genomes transmitted maternally?

S Greiner, J Sobanski, R Bock - Bioessays, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Why the DNA‐containing organelles, chloroplasts, and mitochondria, are inherited
maternally is a long standing and unsolved question. However, recent years have seen a …

Plant triacylglycerols as feedstocks for the production of biofuels

TP Durrett, C Benning, J Ohlrogge - The Plant Journal, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Triacylglycerols produced by plants are one of the most energy‐rich and abundant forms of
reduced carbon available from nature. Given their chemical similarities, plant oils represent …