Progress in improving photosynthetic efficiency by synthetic biology.

Lixin Zhang; Congming LU; Lianwei Peng; Weimin MA; Wanqiang Qian

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Progress in improving photosynthetic efficiency by synthetic biology.

Author: Lixin ZHANG ¹ ; Congming LU ¹ ; Lianwei PENG ² ; Weimin MA ² ; Wanqiang QIAN ³
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1. Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
2. College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China.
3. Agricultural Genome Research Institute in Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, Guangdong, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: light utilization efficiency; photosynthesis; synthetic biology
From: Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2017;33(3):486-493
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: The contradiction between the increasing population and the decrease of tillable land areas is becoming more and more serious in our country. Food security is an important guarantee for sustainable development of our national economy. Photosynthesis is the basis for crop yield. Improving crop photosynthetic efficiency is one of the important approaches to increase crop yield. In this review, we summarized the recent advances in engineering photosynthetic performance by synthetic biology from three key aspects including absorption, transduction and conversion of light energy, light utilization efficiency and carbon assimilation. We also addressed the prospects of its application in increasing photosynthetic efficiency through synthetic biology principles, which may provide important theoretical support and key biotechnology to increase grain production.