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Yaka Ichikawa1, Masahiro Tamoi, Harumi Sakuyama
1Department of Advanced Bioscience, Faculty of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nara, Japan.
Abstract:
We generated transplastomic lettuce plants expressing cyanobacterial fructose-1,6-/sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase (FBP/SBPase) in chloroplasts. Their photosynthetic capacity and productivity were increased 1.3-fold and 1.6-fold, respectively, compared with control plants transformed with pRL200, indicating that the introduction of the enzyme affects the photosynthetic capacity and growth of lettuce plants at ambient CO(2) levels (360 ppm).
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