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

Briardo Llorente; María Eugenia Segretin; Estefanía Giannini; Celina Lobais; Marcelo E. Juárez; Ian T. Paulsen; Nicolás E. Blanco

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26975-5

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

Briardo Llorente^*, María Eugenia Segretin^*, Estefanía Giannini, Celina Lobais, Marcelo E. Juárez, Ian T. Paulsen, Nicolás E. Blanco^*

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	6734
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	12
Issue number	1
Early online date	18 Nov 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26975-5
Publication status	Published - 18 Nov 2021

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Keywords

Synthetic biology
Agricultural genetics
Genetic engineering
Molecular engineering in plants

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

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