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PLANTS-BASEL
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants7020027
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- Saudi Arabian Government
- University of Essex Research Incentive Scheme
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Crop Improvement Research Club (CIRC) [BB/H01960X/1]
- Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency to Increase Wheat Yields (iWYP) [BB/N021045/1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the 20:20 wheat program
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/N021045/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BBS/E/C/000I0220, BBS/E/C/00005202, BB/N021045/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Wheat yields have plateaued in recent years and given the growing global population there is a pressing need to develop higher yielding varieties to meet future demand. Genetic manipulation of photosynthesis in elite wheat varieties offers the opportunity to significantly increase yields. However, the absence of a well-defined molecular tool-box of promoters to manipulate leaf processes in wheat hinders advancements in this area. Two promoters, one driving the expression of sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase (SBPase) and the other fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FBPA) from Brachypodium distachyon were identified and cloned into a vector in front of the GUS reporter gene. Both promoters were shown to be functionally active in wheat in both transient assays and in stably transformed wheat plants. Analysis of the stable transformants of wheat (cv. Cadenza) showed that both promoters controlled gus expression throughout leaf development as well as in other green tissues. The availability of these promoters provides new tools for the expression of genes in transgenic wheat leaves and also paves the way for multigene manipulation of photosynthesis to improve yields.
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