Homecoming: rewinding the reductive evolution of the chloroplast genome for increasing crop yields

Developing more productive and sustainable crops will be essential to achieving food security in coming decades. A core process in plant evolution has been the transfer of chloroplast-encoded genes to the nuclear genome. We propose reverting this process as a new approach to improve plant disease re...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nature communications 2021-11, Vol.12 (1), p.6734-6734, Article 6734
Hauptverfasser:	Llorente, Briardo, Segretin, María Eugenia, Giannini, Estefanía, Lobais, Celina, Juárez, Marcelo E., Paulsen, Ian T., Blanco, Nicolás E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	631/1647/1511 631/449/447/8 631/61/338/552 631/61/447/2311 Chloroplasts Chloroplasts - genetics Comment Crop Production - methods Crop Production - trends Crop yield Crops Crops, Agricultural - classification Crops, Agricultural - genetics Crops, Agricultural - metabolism Disease resistance Disease Resistance - genetics Evolution Evolution, Molecular Evolutionary genetics Food security Gene Expression Regulation, Plant Genetic Engineering - methods Genome, Chloroplast - genetics Genome, Plant - genetics Genomes Humanities and Social Sciences Microprocessors multidisciplinary Photosynthesis Photosynthesis - genetics Plant diseases Plant Diseases - genetics Plant immunity Rewinding Science Science (multidisciplinary) Sustainable agriculture
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Zusammenfassung:	Developing more productive and sustainable crops will be essential to achieving food security in coming decades. A core process in plant evolution has been the transfer of chloroplast-encoded genes to the nuclear genome. We propose reverting this process as a new approach to improve plant disease resistance and photosynthesis in future crops.
ISSN:	2041-1723 2041-1723
DOI:	10.1038/s41467-021-26975-5