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Enhanced photosynthetic performance and growth as a consequence of decreasing mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase activity in transgenic tomato plants.
Plant physiology - 1 Feb 2005
Nunes-Nesi Adriano, Carrari Fernando, Lytovchenko Anna, Smith Anna M O, Loureiro Marcelo Ehlers, Ratcliffe R George, Sweetlove Lee J, Fernie Alisdair R
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Transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants expressing a fragment of the mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase gene in the antisense orientation and exhibiting reduced activity of this isoform of malate dehydrogenase show enhanced photosynthetic activity and aerial growth under atmospheric conditions (360 ppm CO2). In comparison to wild-type plants, carbon dioxide assimilation rates and total plant dry matter...
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