Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops

#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank

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#MonashScience has secured $11M+ in #ARC #DP26! 14 projects funded, tackling climate, energy, evolution & more, including from our ECRs Dr @mariaermakova.bsky.social & Dr @agunn.bsky.social! Read more: www.monash.edu/science/news...

Russell Woodford and co-authors find an essential role of PGR5 in enabling efficient C4 photosynthesis under fluctuating light by regulating photosynthetic control and energy-dependent non-photochemical quenching. doi.org/10.1093/plph...

PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 enables efficient C4 photosynthesis under fluctuating light url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

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Andrew Willoughby from the Nimchuk Lab at UNC wrote this great intro to RUBY for the Addgene blog! blog.addgene.org/ruby-red-sil...

Was great to celebrate the acceptance of the first PhD student’s paper coming from my lab! 🥳 Congrats to Russell Woodford, thanks to all co-authors and cheers for many more to come 🥂

🚩To all attendees of the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on #Photosynthesis and to the wider #PlantScience community, don't miss our Special Issue on Photosynthesis
-out later this year!

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Melbourne Plant Science Community! We have an opportunity to get together again for a seminar of Prof Christine Raines, a pioneer in genetic engineering of plants for improved photosynthesis and growth. Come on Feb 18, 10.30am to LaTrobe City Campus, room 2.15. Please repost & share with colleagues!

Enrique Lopez-Juez from Royal Holloway talked about the importance of practicals (👍👍👍👍👍 agreed). The SEB has a portal with same practicals for higher education, see below.
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A family of NADPH/NADP+ biosensors reveals in vivo dynamics of central redox metabolism across eukaryotes www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturecomms.bsky.social

📢Preprint alert! We found a new PGRL1 paralog which evolved in grasses. Modelling suggests it has a distinct lumen-exposed region, compared to ‘conventional’ PGRL1, which could provide faster regulation of photoprotection. The two PGRL1s are expressed in different cell types in NADP-ME C4 grasses!

Here is a starter to a starter pack for the Aus plant science community. Let’s rebuild. #plantscience

Let me know if you want to be added. Help me find more.
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