Brutnell, T. P., Wang, L., Swartwood, K., Goldschmidt, A., Jackson, D. P. , Zhu, X. G., Kellogg, E., van Eck, J. (August 2010) Setaria viridis: A model for C4 photosynthesis. Plant Cell, 22 (8). pp. 2537-2544.
Abstract
C4 photosynthesis drives productivity in several major food crops and bioenergy grasses, including maize (Zea mays), sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), Miscanthus × giganteus, and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). Gains in productivity associated with C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis include improved water and nitrogen use efficiencies. Thus, engineering C<sub>4</sub> traits into C<sub>3</sub> crops is an attractive target for crop improvement. However, the lack of a small, rapid cycling genetic model system to study C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis has limited progress in dissecting the regulatory networks underlying the C<sub>4</sub> syndrome. Setaria viridis is a member of the Panicoideae clade and is a close relative of several major feed, fuel, and bioenergy grasses. It is a true diploid with a relatively small genome of ~510 Mb. Its short stature, simple growth requirements, and rapid life cycle will greatly facilitate genetic studies of the C<sub>4</sub> grasses. Importantly, S. viridis uses an NADP-malic enzyme subtype C<sub>4</sub> photosynthetic system to fix carbon and therefore is a potentially powerful model system for dissecting C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis. Here, we summarize some of the recent advances that promise greatly to accelerate the use of S. viridis as a genetic system. These include our recent successful efforts at regenerating plants from seed callus, establishing a transient transformation system, and developing stable transformation. © 2010 American Society of Plant Biologists.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Subjects: | organism description > plant > maize bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > design > nucleic acid design |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Jackson lab |
| Depositing User: | CSHL Librarian |
| Date: | 6 August 2010 |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Sep 2011 14:38 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2015 20:57 |
| PMCID: | PMC2947182 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/15368 |
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