Crop yield: challenges from a metabolic perspective

Autor(es)

Rossi, Magdalena ^[1] ; Bermudez, Luisa ^{[2, 3]} ; Carrari, Fernando ^{[2, 3]}

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Dept Bot IB USP, BR-05508090 Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil

^[2] Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, RA-1033 Buenos Aires, DF - Argentina

^[3] Univ Buenos Aires, Fac Agron, RA-1053 Buenos Aires, DF - Argentina

• Tipo de documento: Artigo de Revisão
• Fonte: Current Opinion in Plant Biology; v. 25, p. 79-89, JUN 2015.
• Citações Web of Science: 18

Resumo

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. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 13/50481-5 - Desvendando a regulação do metabolismo de vitamina E em Solanum lycopersicum
• Beneficiário: Maria Magdalena Rossi
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular
• Processo FAPESP: 14/10651-1 - Manipulação da senescência foliar e da degradação da clorofila visando o melhoramento da produtividade e da qualidade nutricional
• Beneficiário: Maria Magdalena Rossi
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular