How Plants Survive the Heat—On the Benefit of Engineered Photorespiration

2024/12/01 by Hu Sun, Inken Thiemann, Stefan Timm · 2 voices
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms #Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics #Plant responses to elevated CO2

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/gcb.17609

openalex publication_date 2024/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/19

Abstract

This commentary article highlights the recent findings by Meacham–Hensold and colleagues on the benefit of engineered photorespiration for plant acclimation toward future climate change scenarios. Their fieldwork shows that optimized photorespiration can help to deal with short‐term heatwaves better than the corresponding control plants.

Citations

• The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
• Shortcutting Photorespiration Protects Potato Photosynthesis and Tuber Yield Against Heatwave Stress

Discussions

• Their work was recently published in Global Change Biology and was one of only 1% of GCB articles to receive invited commentary: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
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