Overexpression of C4-cycle enzymes in transgenic C3 plants:: a biotechnological approach to improve C3-photosynthesis

被引:85
作者
Häusler, RE
Hirsch, HJ
Kreuzaler, F
Peterhänsel, C
机构
[1] Univ Cologne, Inst Bot, D-50931 Cologne, Germany
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Biol 1, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
关键词
biotechnology; crop yield; transgenic C-3 plants;
D O I
10.1093/jexbot/53.369.591
中图分类号
Q94 [植物学];
学科分类号
071001 ;
摘要
The process of photorespiration diminishes the efficiency of CO2 assimilation and yield of C-3-crops such as wheat, rice, soybean or potato, which are important for feeding the growing world population. Photorespiration starts with the competitive inhibition of CO2 fixation by O-2 at the active site of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) and can result in a loss of up to 50% of the CO2 fixed in ambient air. By contrast, C-4 plants, such as maize, sugar cane and Sorghum, possess a CO2 concentrating mechanism, by which atmospheric CO2 is bound to C-4-carbon compounds and shuttled from the mesophyll cells where the prefixation of bicarbonate occurs via phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) into the gas-tight bundle-sheath cells, where the bound carbon is released again as CO2 and enters the Calvin cycle. However, the anatomical division into mesophyll and bundle-sheaths cells ('Kranz'-anatomy) appears not to be a prerequisite for the operation of a CO2 concentrating mechanism. Submerged aquatic macrophytes, for instance, can induce a C-4-like CO2 concentrating mechanism in only one cell type when CO2 becomes limiting. A single cell C-4-mechanism has also been reported recently for a terrestrial chenopod. For over 10 years researchers in laboratories around the world have attempted to improve photosynthesis and crop yield by introducing a single cell C-4-cycle in C-3 plants by a transgenic approach. In the meantime, there has been substantial progress in overexpressing the key enzymes of the C-4 cycle in rice, potato, and tobacco. In this review there will be a focus on biochemical and physiological consequences of the overexpression of C-4-cycle genes in C-3 plants. Bearing in mind that C-4-cycle enzymes are also present in C-3 plants, the pitfalls encountered when C-3 metabolism is perturbed by the overexpression of individual C-4 genes will also be discussed.
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