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Engineering Improved Canopy Level Photosynthesis Into Sugarcane.

Poster Number 813

Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Tampa Convention Center, East Hall, Third Floor

Xiaoguo Zhang, Agronomy, The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Engineering Improved Canopy Level Photosynthesis into Sugarcane

X. Zhang1, Y. Zhao1, A. Vilharinho1, X. Chen1, J.H. Jung1, A.K Grennan2, D. Ort2 , Steve Long2 and Fredy Altpeter1

1  Agronomy Department,  Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Genetics Institute, University of Florida, IFAS, Gainesville, FL, USA

2Department of Plant Biology, Department of Crop Sciences University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

Sugarcane is one of the most productive biofuel crops due to its superior photosynthetic efficiency. Sugarcane has a C4 type metabolism for fixation of carbon, allowing it to be very well adapted to biomass production in tropical and subtropical regions. Genetic improvement of photosynthetic efficiency can be achieved by targeting higher photosynthetic rates/unit of leaf area and by developing the most photosynthetically effective canopy. We introduced several different transgenes into sugarcane and will report on transgene expression and its correlation to altered phenotypes and the consequences for photosynthesis.

See more from this Division: C07 Genomics, Molecular Genetics & Biotechnology
See more from this Session: General Genomics, Molecular Genetics & Biotechnology: II

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