GOLDEN2‐LIKE transcription factors: A golden ticket to improve crops?

Societal Impact Statement The human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in the next 30 years, increasing strain on our already precarious food system. Climate change shifting weather patterns, leading unpredictable and catastrophic events that further threaten agronomic sector. Plant scientists are implementing biotechnological tools sustainably increase both production nutritional content of crops. Engineering GOLDEN2‐LIKE (GLK) transcription factors a promising route improve photosynthesis, as well other important agronomical traits, achieve security for growing under an climate. Summary Using agricultural biotechnology photosynthetic efficiency crops has been focus plant science research over last two decades. Transcription coordinate expression gene networks basis development physiological responses and, such, good targets help photosynthesis. Among known transcriptional regulators, (GLKs) may be ideal candidates photosynthesis crops, they master regulators genes associated with chloroplast biogenesis across broad diversity lineages. Moreover, recent work revealed their involvement environmental response, pathogen defence regulation plant's whole life cycle. Thus, manipulating GLK activity, alone or likely combination modifications, clear potential growth. Here, we review into function discuss these key enhance stress tolerance Additionally, take advantage vast genome transcriptome datasets available explore evolutionary history GLKs kingdom implications adoption crop engineering projects.