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Strategies for engineering a two-celled C(4) photosynthetic pathway into rice.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 May 2011
Kajala Kaisa, Covshoff Sarah, Karki Shanta, Woodfield Helen, Tolley Ben J, Dionora Mary Jaqueline A, Mogul Reychelle T, Mabilangan Abigail E, Danila Florence R, Hibberd Julian M, Quick William P
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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 provide adequate nutrition into the future, rice yields in Asia need to increase by 60%, a change that may be achieved by introduction of the C(4) photosynthetic cycle into rice. The international C(4) Rice Consortium was...
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