Pyramiding of three C_plus-plus">4 specific genes towards yield enhancement in rice

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• 作者：Priyanka Sen ; Subhrajyoti Ghosh…
• 关键词：Transgenic rice ; C4 enzymes ; Photosynthetic efficiency ; Absolute photosynthetic index ; Yield enhancement ; Anatomical variations
• 刊名：Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC)
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：128
• 期：1
• 页码：145-160
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Plant Sciences; Plant Physiology; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Plant Pathology;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-5044
• 卷排序：128

文摘

C₄ plants can efficiently accumulate CO₂ in leaves and thus reduce wasteful oxygen fixation by the RuBisCO enzyme. Three C₄ enzymes, namely carbonic anhydrase (CA), phosphoenol pyruvate (PEPC) and pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase (PPDK), were over expressed in Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica var. Khitish under the control of green tissue specific promoters PD_54o, PEPC and PPDK, respectively. Integration of these genes was confirmed by Southern hybridization. The relative expression of PEPC, CA and PPDK were, respectively, 6.75, 6.57 and 3.6-fold higher in transgenic plants compared to wild type plants (control). Photosynthetic efficiency of the transgenic plants increased significantly along with a 12 % increase in grain yield compared to wild type plants. Compared to control plants, transgenic plants also showed phenotypic changes such as increased leaf blade size, root biomass, and plant height and anatomical changes such as greater leaf vein number, bundle sheath cells, and bulliform cells. Our findings indicate that the combined over expression of these three enzymes is an efficient strategy for incorporating beneficial physiological and anatomical features that will enable subsequent yield enhancement in C₃ rice plants.