Enhancing (crop) plant photosynthesis by introducing novel genetic diversity

The mechanisms whereby the green algaChlorella ohadii, isolated from desert soil crust, exhibits unparalleled photodamage resistance

(2016) Haim Treves et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Improving photosynthesis and crop productivity by accelerating recovery from photoprotection

(2016) Johannes Kromdijk et al.   SCIENCE

The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase

(2016) MAARTEN J.M. CHRISTENHUSZ et al.   Phytotaxa

Reconstructing the Origin of Oxygenic Photosynthesis: Do Assembly and Photoactivation Recapitulate Evolution?

(2016) Tanai Cardona   Frontiers in Plant Science

Environmental changes bridge evolutionary valleys

(2016) B. Steinberg et al.   Science Advances

An 800-kyr record of global surface ocean δ 18 O and implications for ice volume-temperature coupling

(2015) Jeremy D. Shakun et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mutation Rates in Plastid Genomes: They Are Lower than You Might Think

(2015) David Roy Smith   Genome Biology and Evolution

The early evolution of land plants, from fossils to genomics: a commentary on Lang (1937) ‘On the plant-remains from the Downtonian of England and Wales'

(2015) Dianne Edwards et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bottlenecks and selective sweeps during domestication have increased deleterious genetic variation in dogs

(2015) Clare D. Marsden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental design approach in recombinant protein expression: determining medium composition and induction conditions for expression of pneumolysin from Streptococcus pneumoniae in Escherichia coli and preliminary purification process

(2014) Guillermo Marini et al.   BMC BIOTECHNOLOGY

Isolation of a novel alkaline-stable lipase from a metagenomic library and its specific application for milkfat flavor production

(2014) Qing Peng et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Quantum coherence in photosynthesis for efficient solar-energy conversion

(2014) Elisabet Romero et al.   Nature Physics

Can the Cyanobacterial Carbon-Concentrating Mechanism Increase Photosynthesis in Crop Species? A Theoretical Analysis

(2014) J. M. McGrath et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Land plant evolutionary timeline: Gene effects are secondary to fossil constraints in relaxed clock estimation of age and substitution rates

(2013) Susana Magallón et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Photosystem II photoinhibition-repair cycle protects Photosystem I from irreversible damage

(2013) Mikko Tikkanen et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

The chloroplast signal recognition particle (CpSRP) pathway as a tool to minimize chlorophyll antenna size and maximize photosynthetic productivity

(2013) Henning Kirst et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Survey of Plant Density Tolerance in U.S. Maize Germplasm

(2013) Brian D. Mansfield et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Evolution of flexible non-photochemical quenching mechanisms that regulate light harvesting in oxygenic photosynthesis

(2013) Krishna K Niyogi et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Macroevolutionary perspectives to environmental change

(2013) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Insolation-driven 100,000-year glacial cycles and hysteresis of ice-sheet volume

(2013) Ayako Abe-Ouchi et al.   NATURE

The GreenCut: re-evaluation of physiological role of previously studied proteins and potential novel protein functions

(2013) Mark L. Heinnickel et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Gymnosperms Have Increased Capacity for Electron Leakage to Oxygen (Mehler and PTOX reactions) in Photosynthesis Compared with Angiosperms

(2013) Masayoshi Shirao et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Improving Photosynthesis

(2013) J. R. Evans   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Molecular Dating, Evolutionary Rates, and the Age of the Grasses

(2013) P.-A. Christin et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The mechanism of photoinhibition in vivo : Re-evaluation of the roles of catalase, α-tocopherol, non-photochemical quenching, and electron transport

(2012) Norio Murata et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Back-reactions, short-circuits, leaks and other energy wasteful reactions in biological electron transfer: Redox tuning to survive life in O2

(2012) A. William Rutherford et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Natural Variants of Photosystem II Subunit D1 Tune Photochemical Fitness to Solar Intensity

(2012) David J. Vinyard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Engineering photosynthesis in plants and synthetic microorganisms

(2012) Veronica G. Maurino et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Cyanobacterial-based approaches to improving photosynthesis in plants

(2012) Jan Zarzycki et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The cyanobacterial CCM as a source of genes for improving photosynthetic CO2 fixation in crop species

(2012) G. Dean Price et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Rubisco activity and regulation as targets for crop improvement

(2012) M. A. J. Parry et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Adaptive signals in algal Rubisco reveal a history of ancient atmospheric carbon dioxide

(2012) J. N. Young et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Optimal Mutagen Dosage to Induce Point-Mutations in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 and Its Application to Promote Temperature Tolerance

(2012) Ulrich M. Tillich et al.   PLoS One

Drift-barrier hypothesis and mutation-rate evolution

(2012) W. Sung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lethally Hot Temperatures During the Early Triassic Greenhouse

(2012) Y. Sun et al.   SCIENCE

How Can the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis be Improved in Plants?

(2012) Dario Leister   Frontiers in Plant Science

The GreenCut2 Resource, a Phylogenomically Derived Inventory of Proteins Specific to the Plant Lineage

(2011) Steven J. Karpowicz et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Regulation of root water uptake under abiotic stress conditions

(2011) R. Aroca et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting

(2011) Gregory D. Scholes et al.   Nature Chemistry

Accelerating yield potential in soybean: potential targets for biotechnological improvement

(2011) ELIZABETH A. AINSWORTH et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement

(2011) R. E. Blankenship et al.   SCIENCE

Improving photosynthesis for algal biofuels: toward a green revolution

(2011) Patrick G. Stephenson et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

A structural phylogenetic map for chloroplast photosynthesis

(2011) John F. Allen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Expanding the solar spectrum used by photosynthesis

(2011) Min Chen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency for Greater Yield

(2010) Xin-Guang Zhu et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Quantum design for a light trap

(2010) Rienk van Grondelle et al.   NATURE

Inorganic carbon acquisition by eukaryotic algae: four current questions

(2010) John A. Raven   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Photoinhibition of photosystem I

(2010) Kintake Sonoike   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Enhancing C3 Photosynthesis

(2010) S. von Caemmerer et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Long-lived quantum coherence in photosynthetic complexes at physiological temperature

(2010) G. Panitchayangkoon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of the mutation rate

(2010) Michael Lynch   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Mutation discovery for crop improvement

(2009) M. A. J. Parry et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Solar energy conversion efficiencies in photosynthesis: Minimizing the chlorophyll antennae to maximize efficiency

(2009) Anastasios Melis   PLANT SCIENCE

Dynamics of Light Harvesting in Photosynthesis

(2008) Yuan-Chung Cheng et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Photoprotection in higher plants: The putative quenching site is conserved in all outer light-harvesting complexes of Photosystem II

(2008) Milena Mozzo et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

A Complex Containing PGRL1 and PGR5 Is Involved in the Switch between Linear and Cyclic Electron Flow in Arabidopsis

(2008) Giovanni DalCorso et al.   CELL

Photosynthetic energy conversion: natural and artificial

(2008) James Barber   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Light-energy conversion in engineered microorganisms

(2008) Ethan T. Johnson et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY