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A rice plastidial nucleotide sugar epimerase is involved in galactolipid biosynthesis and improves photosynthetic efficiency.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jul 2011
Li Chunlai, Wang Yiqin, Liu Linchuan, Hu Yingchun, Zhang Fengxia, Mergen Sod, Wang Guodong, Schläppi Michael R, Chu Chengcai
Abstract excerpt
Photosynthesis is the final determinator for crop yield. To gain insight into genes controlling photosynthetic capacity, we selected from our large T-DNA mutant population a rice stunted growth mutant with decreased carbon assimilate and yield production named photoassimilate defective1 (phd1). Molecular and biochemical analyses revealed that PHD1 encodes a novel chloroplast-localized UDP-glucose epimerase (UGE),...
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