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SUMMARY:Discovery of genetic elements determining the C4 photosynthetic ph
 enotype using introgression lines from C3-C4 hybrids - Gregory Reeves\, 1s
 t yr grad
DTSTART:20150430T130000Z
DTEND:20150430T133000Z
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CONTACT:Megan Cooper
DESCRIPTION:Meeting global food demands in the coming decades will require
  innovative and sustainable solutions. Food crops require photosynthesis t
 o harness abundant sunlight and store it into biomass via carbon fixation.
  However\, photosynthesis is greatly limited by the availability of carbon
  dioxide. Interestingly\, few plants are able to overcome this limitation 
 and enhance their photosynthetic efficiency with a genetically encoded car
 bon concentrating mechanism\, termed C4 photosynthesis. Transferring C4 ph
 otosynthesis into important non-C4 crops which use the ancestral and less 
 efficient C3 photosynthesis has the potential to increase existing yields 
 by more than 50%\, while increasing water and nitrogen use efficiency. Har
 nessing the potential of C4 photosynthesis would be an incredible and sust
 ainable solution to global food security and supply! The focus of this res
 earch is to explain how this mechanism will be transferred to important pl
 ants. This PhD project aims to study the inheritance and genetic basis of 
 C4 photosynthesis through traditional gene mapping of novel C3 X C4 hybrid
 s and studying gene expression determinates for select enzymes in the C4 b
 iochemical pathway.  
LOCATION:Sainsbury Laboratory
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