| General The photosynthesis team at the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) is conducting research to improve carbon assimilation and increase crop yields, while minimising the use of resources. Research focuses on understanding natural variation in photosyntheticefficiency and the regulation of environmental responses across diverse plant genotypes. Role in Photoboost ULANC will lead modelling photosynthetic metabolism and contribute to enzyme testing and engineering, the stacking of photosynthetic and the testing of potato plants under diverse conditions in greenhouses. ULANC will also provide scientific expertise for the detailed biochemical analysis of elite plants. Other related projects: https://ripe.illinois.edu/ Contact Martin Parry m.parry@lancaster.ac.uk Selected publications Amaral J, Lobo AKM, Carmo-Silva E. Regulation of Rubisco activity in crops. New Phytol. 2024;241(1):35-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19369 Croce R, Carmo-Silva E, Cho YB, et al. Perspectives on improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield. Plant Cell 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koae132 Lobo AKM, Orr DJ, Carmo-Silva E. Regulation of Rubisco activity by interaction with chloroplast metabolites. Biochem J. 2024;481(15):1043-1056. https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20240209 Lobo AKM, Orr DJ, Gutierrez MO, Andralojc PJ, Sparks C, Parry MAJ, Carmo-Silva E (2019) Overexpression of ca1pase decreases Rubisco abundance and grain yield in wheat. Plant Physiology (online ahead of print). https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.19.00693 Kromdijk J, Głowacka K, Leonelli L, Gabilly ST, Iwai M, Niyogi KK, Long SP (2016) Improving photosynthesis and crop productivity by accelerating recovery from photoprotection. Science 354, 857–861. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aai8878 Song Q, Chen D, Long S, Zhu X (2017) A user-friendly means to scale from the biochemistry of photosynthesis to whole crop canopies and production in time and space – development of Java WIMOVAC. Plant Cell and Environment 40, 51–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12816 Taylor SH, Long SP (2017) Slow induction of photosynthesis on shade to sun transitions in wheat may cost at least 21% of productivity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 372, 20160543. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0543 Valegård K, Andralojc PJ, Haslam RP, Pearce FG, Eriksen GK, Madgwick PJ, Kristoffersen AK, van Lun M, Klein U, Eilertsen HC, Andersson I, Parry MAJ (2018) Structural and functional analyses of Rubisco from arctic diatom species reveal unusual posttranslational modifications. Journal of Biological Chemistry 293, 13033–13043. https://doi.org/10.1074/ jbc.RA118.003518 Vijayakumar S, Wang Y, Lehretz G, Taylor S, Carmo-Silva E, Long S. Kinetic modeling identifies targets for engineering improved photosynthetic efficiency in potato (Solanum tuberosum cv. Solara). Plant J. 2024;117(2):561-572. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16512 Go to website |