Edited by
J.E. Sheehy, International Rice Research Institute
Los Baños, Philippines
By
P.L. Mitchell, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
B. Hardy, International Rice Research Institute
Los Baños, Philippines
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 C
4 plant.
The various chapters in this book deal with photosynthesis; a comparison of C
3
and C
4 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.
Included in series
Studies in Plant Science
