Crop yield: challenges from a metabolic perspective

• Authors: Rossi, Magdalena; Bermudez Salazar, Luisa Fernanda; Carrari, Fernando Oscar
• Publication Year: 2015
• Language: English
• Format: article
• Status: Published version
• Description: Considering the dual use of plants, as bio-factories for foods and feedstock for bio-refining, along with a rising world population, the plant biotechnology field is currently facing a dramatic challenge to develop crops with higher yield. Furthermore, convergent studies predict that global changes in climate will influence crop productivity by modifying most yield-associated traits. Here, we review recent advances in the understanding of plant metabolism directly or indirectly impacting on yield and provide an update of the different pathways proposed as targets for metabolic engineering aiming to optimize source–sink relationships.; Fil: Rossi, Magdalena. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasil; Fil: Bermudez Salazar, Luisa Fernanda. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía; Argentina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Veterinarias y Agronómicas. Instituto de Biotecnología; Argentina; Fil: Carrari, Fernando Oscar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía; Argentina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Veterinarias y Agronómicas. Instituto de Biotecnología; Argentina
• Subject: YIELD; METABOLISM; CROP PRODUCTIVITY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; Otras Ciencias Biológicas; Ciencias Biológicas; CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS
• Access level: Restricted access
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ar/
• Institution: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
• OAI Identifier: oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/42325