Journal
TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 327-338Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.01.006
Keywords
crassulacean acid metabolism; water-use efficiency; engineering CAM into C-3 plants; biodesign; bioenergy
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- DOE, Office of Science, Genomic Science Program [DE-SC0008834]
- National Science Foundation, USA [IOS-084373]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK [BB/F009313/1]
- National Center for Research Resources [5P20RR016464-11]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [8 P20 GM103440-11]
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) through Nevada Genomics Center and the Nevada Center for Bioinformatics
- US DOE [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- BBSRC [BB/F009313/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F009313/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [NER/A/S/2001/01163] Funding Source: researchfish
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0008834] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Climatic extremes threaten agricultural sustainability worldwide. One approach to increase plant water-use efficiency (WUE) is to introduce crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) into C-3 crops. Such a task requires comprehensive systems-level understanding of the enzymatic and regulatory pathways underpinning this temporal CO2 pump. Here we review the progress that has been made in achieving this goal. Given that CAM arose through multiple independent evolutionary origins, comparative transcriptomics and genomics of taxonomically diverse CAM species are being used to define the genetic 'parts list' required to operate the core CAM functional modules of nocturnal carboxylation, diurnal decarboxylation, and inverse stomatal regulation. Engineered CAM offers the potential to sustain plant productivity for food, feed, fiber, and biofuel production in hotter and drier climates.
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