Homecoming: rewinding the reductive evolution of the chloroplast genome for increasing crop yields

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 re...

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Autores principales: Llorente, Briardo, Segretin, María Eugenia, Giannini, Estefanía, Lobais, Celina, Juárez, Marcelo E., Paulsen, Ian T., Blanco, Nicolás E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8602674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34795241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26975-5
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Sumario: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.

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