Genetic Regulations for Plant Photosynthesis
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 775
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rice; photosynthesis; quantitative trait loci; natural variation; high-throughput phenotyping; field transcriptome
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant photosynthesis is the chemical reaction that converts light energy into organic matters, supporting our food production and sustaining the earth’s environment. Understanding the molecular and physiological mechanisms that regulate photosynthesis and examining how photosynthetic capacity can be genetically improved are both promising research targets for feeding the world with minimum environmental burden. Some recent studies have shown that genetic modification of key genes can boost leaf photosynthetic capacity resulting in enhanced plant productivity. Other studies have evaluated natural variation of photosynthesis among diverse plant accessions and identified QTLs associated with photosynthetic differences. Although our understanding of photosynthetic controls has been expanded in the past few decades, further insight into the molecular mechanisms of photosynthetic control, their response to environments, and their impacts on productivity is essential to achieve enhanced crop production in farmers’ fields. In this context, this Special Issue covers genetic and molecular basics, which will potentially lead to an improvement in the photosynthetic capacity of plants, either under laboratory condition or filed condition. Any genetic approaches including QTL analysis, GWAS, mutant analysis and transgene are acceptable to understand molecular factors of photosynthesis. A focus on not only leaf-level photosynthesis but also canopy-level photosynthesis and photosynthesis of other organs is acceptable for this Special Issue. Furthermore, our scope includes new high-throughput phenotyping technologies to enable the screening of a great number of plant accessions and mutants.
Dr. Shunsuke Adachi
Dr. Yu Tanaka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photosynthesis
- phenotyping
- gene mapping
- molecular mechanism
- natural variation
- mutant
- response to environments
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