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

Briardo Llorente (), María Eugenia Segretin (), Estefanía Giannini, Celina Lobais, Marcelo E. Juárez, Ian T. Paulsen and Nicolás E. Blanco ()
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Briardo Llorente: Macquarie University
María Eugenia Segretin: Laboratorio de Biotecnología Vegetal, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular “Dr. Héctor N. Torres” (INGEBI-CONICET), (C1428ADN), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Estefanía Giannini: Macquarie University
Celina Lobais: Center of Photosynthetic and Biochemical Studies (CEFOBI-CONICET), Faculty of Biochemical Science and Pharmacy, Rosario National University
Marcelo E. Juárez: Laboratorio de Biotecnología Vegetal, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular “Dr. Héctor N. Torres” (INGEBI-CONICET), (C1428ADN), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Ian T. Paulsen: Macquarie University
Nicolás E. Blanco: Center of Photosynthetic and Biochemical Studies (CEFOBI-CONICET), Faculty of Biochemical Science and Pharmacy, Rosario National University

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-5

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2021
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