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Breeding for Improved CO2 Fixation

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Applications of Genetic Engineering to Crop Improvement

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Abstract

Photosynthesis may be defined as the assimilation of CO2 by plants in light to form carbohydrates. The basic processes, which are probably similar in all plants, have been covered recently in a number of excellent reviews (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Briefly, the starting point from a biophysical point of view is the excitation of a light harvesting pigment (chlorophyll) by an absorbed light quantum. In higher plants, chlorophyll is localized in discrete cellular organelles, the chloroplasts. These are surrounded by an envelope that delineates the pigmented internal membrane network and stroma from the cytoplasm of the host cells. The chloroplast envelope contains carotenoids but no chlorophyll. The majority of light-absorbing pigments serve simply as light harvesters which transfer the absorbed energy to a relatively few specialized sites (reaction centres) for trapping (6).

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Buzzell, R.I., Buttery, B.R. (1984). Breeding for Improved CO2 Fixation. In: Collins, G.B., Petolino, J.G. (eds) Applications of Genetic Engineering to Crop Improvement. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6207-1_4

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