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Proceedings of the Workshop on the Quest to Reduce Hunger: Redesigning Rice Photosynthesis, held in Los Baños, Philippines, from 30 November to 3 December 1999.
By
P.L. Mitchell, Department of Animal and Plant SciencesUniversity of SheffieldUnited Kingdom
Edited By
J.E. Sheehy, International Rice Research InstituteLos Baños, Philippines
By
B. Hardy, International Rice Research InstituteLos Baños, Philippines
Included in series
Studies in Plant Science, 7
Description
Rice yields need to increase in order to keep pace with the growing population of Asia and to alleviate hunger and poverty. There appears,
however, to be a biophysical limit associated with conventional photosynthetic pathways. The research presented in this book aims at
understanding how the rice plant's photosynthetic pathway could be redesigned to overcome current yield limits. The factors controlling
yield are discussed from the agronomic to the molecular level. Prospects for improving rice photosynthesis include using genetic engineering
to convert rice into a C4 plant.
The various chapters in this book deal with photosynthesis; a comparison of C3
and C4 pathways; genes physiology and function, and also discuss this in the broader context of economic consequences of yield
improvements for poverty, the molecular genetics of photosynthesis, and ecophysiological and evolutionary perspectives of photosynthesis
in wetlands.
Researchers on rice, photosynthesis, agronomy, genetic engineering, and food policy will find much of interest in this
book.
Contents
Foreword
Perspectives
The contribution of rice research to poverty alleviation
(D. Dawe).
C3
versus C4 photosynthesis in rice: ecophysiological perspectives
(R.F. Sage).
Photosynthesis, Models, Structure,
and Growth
Limits to yield for C3 and C4 rice: an agronomist's view
(J.E. Sheehy).
Would C4
rice produce more biomass than C3 rice?
(J.R. Evans, S. von Caemmerer).
Will increased photosynthetic efficiency lead to
increased yield in rice?
(T.D. Sharkey, M.M. Laporte, E.L. Kruger).
C4 rice: What are the lessons from developmental and
molecular studies?
(W.C. Taylor).
C3 and C4 Pathways
Requirements for the CO2-concentrating
mechanism in C4 plants relative to
limitations on carbon assimilation in rice
(G.E. Edwards, O. Kiirats, A. Laisk, T.W. Okita).
Overcoming barriers: CO2-concentrating mechanisms and C4 metabolism in relation to transport
(R.C. Leegood).
C4 photosynthesis in rice: some lessons from studies of C3 photosynthesis in field-grown rice
(P. Horton, E.H.
Murchie).
Performance of a potential C4 rice: overview from quantum yield to grain yield
(P.L. Mitchell, J.E. Sheehy).
Genes, Physiology, and Function
How to express some C4 photosynthesis genes at high levels in rice
(M. Matsuoka,
H. Fukayama, H. Tsuchida, M. Nomura, S. Agarie, M.S.B. Ku, M. Miyao).
Influence of carbon-nitrogen balance on productivity of C3
plants and effect of high expression of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in transgenic rice
(M. Osaki, T. Shinano).
Photosynthetic performance
of transgenic rice plants overexpressing maize C4 photosynthesis enzymes
(M.S.B. Ku, D. Cho, U. Ranade, T.-P. Hsu, X. Li,
D.-M. Jiao, J. Ehleringer, M. Miyao, M. Matsuoka).
Rice: Practical Issues
Strategies for increasing the yield potential
of rice
(G.S. Khush).
Single-leaf and canopy photosynthesis of rice
(S. Peng).
Future intensification of irrigated rice systems
(A.
Dobermann).
Rate-limiting steps in nitrogen acquisition by rice in flooded soil
(G.J.D. Kirk).
Reflections
Genetic
modification and agriculture
(P.L. Mitchell, J.E. Sheehy).
Discussion: opportunities for redesigning rice photosynthesis
(P.L. Mitchell,
J.E. Sheehy).
Index
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Hardbound, 300 pages, publication date: NOV-2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-50610-8
ISBN-10: 0-444-50610-1
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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