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Biblioteca(s): | Ebooks.
Data corrente: | 15/08/2008
Data da última atualização: | 16/06/2011
Autoria: | HARDY, B.; SHEEHY, J. E.; MITCHELL, P. L.
Afiliação: | Bill Hardy; J. E. Sheehy; Peter L. Mitchell.
Título: | Redesigning rice photosynthesis to increase yield proceedings of the Workshop on the Quest to Reduce Hunger : Redesigning Rice Photosynthesis, held in Los Baänos, Philippines, 30 November-3 December 1999
Ano de publicação: | 2000
Fonte/Imprenta: | Oxford : Elsevier, 2000.
Páginas: | vi, 293 p.
Descrição Física: | ill. (some col.) ;25 cm.
Série: | Studies in plant science ;7
ISBN: | 9780444506108
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | Increasing rice yields to keep pace with the growing population is the focus of this work. Factors controlling yield are discussed from the agronomic to the molecular level.Rice yields need to increase in order to keep pace with the growing population of Asia and to alleviate hunger and poverty. There appears, however, to be a biophysical limit associated with conventional photosynthetic pathways. The research presented in this book aims at understanding how the rice plant's photosynthetic pathway could be redesigned to overcome current yield limits. The factors controlling yield are discussed from the agronomic to the molecular level. Prospects for improving rice photosynthesis include using genetic engineering to convert rice into a C<INF>4</INF> plant.<P>The various chapters in this book deal with photosynthesis; a comparison of C<INF>3</INF> and C<INF>4</INF> pathways; genes physiology and function, and also discuss this in the broader context of economic consequences of yield improvements for poverty, the molecular genetics of photosynthesis, and ecophysiological and evolutionary perspectives of photosynthesis in wetlands.<P>Researchers on rice, photosynthesis, agronomy, genetic engineering, and food policy will find much of interest in this book.
Palavras-Chave: | PhotosynthesisRegulation; RiceGenetics.
Thesaurus Nal: | yields.
Categoria do assunto: | --
URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/publication?issn=09283420&volume=7
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