90% of the world's rice is grown and consumed in Asia, with each hectare of rice-producing
land providing food for 27 people. By 2050, because of population growth and increasing …

C 4 photosynthesis is normally associated with the compartmentation of photosynthesis
between mesophyll (M) and bundle sheath (BS) cells. The mechanisms regulating the …

Every day almost one billion people suffer from chronic hunger, and the situation is expected
to deteriorate with a projected population growth to 9 billion worldwide by 2050. In order to …

Circadian clocks are believed to confer an advantage to plants, but the nature of that advantage
has been unknown. We show that a substantial photosynthetic advantage is conferred …

The world’s crop productivity is stagnating whereas population growth, rising affluence, and
mandates for biofuels put increasing demands on agriculture. Meanwhile, demand for …

TransRate is a tool for reference-free quality assessment of de novo transcriptome assemblies.
Using only the sequenced reads and the assembly as input, we show that multiple …

Most plants are known as C 3 plants because the first product of photosynthetic CO 2 fixation
is a three-carbon compound 1 . C 4 plants, which use an alternative pathway in which the …

We used DNA sequencing and gel blot surveys to assess the integrity of the chloroplast gene
infA, which codes for translation initiation factor 1, in >300 diverse angiosperms. Whereas …

C 4 photosynthesis involves alterations to the biochemistry, cell biology, and development of
leaves. Together, these modifications increase the efficiency of photosynthesis, and despite …

In many species translocation of sucrose from the mesophyll to the phloem is carrier mediated.
A sucrose/H + -symporter cDNA,NtSUT1, was isolated from tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) …