The C4 Rice Project aims to improve photosynthetic efficiency in rice and thus to enhance crop yields. Without a doubt it is a 'Grand Agricultural Challenge'. Initiated during a workshop at the …

Engineering the C 4 pathway into a C 3 plant requires manipulation of both anatomical and biochemical traits and our project is organized into two workstreams around these objectives. …

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In an exciting advance, gene edited tml1 lines in both maize and rice were shown to develop more major veins in the leaf than wild-type siblings (see paper here). In rice leaves this results in an …

Professor Jane Langdale Jane is Professor of Plant Development at the University of Oxford, and is the current coordinator of the C 4 Rice Project. Her research focuses on how developmental …

Jun 9, 2019 · We have just heard that John Sheehy passed away on Friday. The C4 Rice project was his vision, and without his determination to battle the sceptics it would never have started. …

During Phases I – III of the C 4 rice project, Xinguang’s team focused on developing systems models of C 4 Professor W. Paul Quick. Paul led the C 4 rice team at IRRI during Phase II.

The C4 Rice Project was first conceived by John Sheehy, a plant physiologist who was Head of the Applied Photosynthesis Group at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) from …

Most C 4 plants, and certainly all known C 4 grasses, compartmentalize photosynthetic reactions between two morphologically distinct cell-types that are arranged in concentric circles around …

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