Photosynthesis improvement for enhancing productivity in rice

The success of the dwarf breeding rice and wheat, called Green Revolution, was due to increased source sink capacities, which depended on large increases in N fertilizer inputs. However, today’s high fertilization has an extremely impact environment. While there have been disputes as whether photosynthetic improvement leads increase crop yields, transgenic overproducing ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) – key enzyme photosynthesis, shown yields with improved N-use efficiency for increasing biomass production when receiving sufficient experimental paddy field. A large-grain cultivar, Akita 63 had yield potential without source, analysis suggesting that enhancement photosynthesis would be greatest importance further high-yielding cultivars use efficiency. Development innovative plants capacity is required.