Homecoming: Rewinding the reductive evolution of the chloroplast genome for increasing crop yields

LLORENTE, BRIARDO; SEGRETIN MARIA EUGENIA; GIANINNI, ESTEFANIA; LOBAIS, CELINA; JUAREZ, MARCELO; PAULSEN, IAN; BLANCO N.E.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

Springer Nature

Lugar: Basingstoke; Año: 2021

2041-1723

Developing more productive and sustainable crops will be essential to achieving foodsecurity in coming decades. A core process in plant evolution has been the transfer ofchloroplast-encoded genes to the nuclear genome. We propose reverting this process as anew approach to improve plant disease resistance and photosynthesis in future crops.