A holistic approach to improve the photosynthetic performance and productivity of C3 crops under diverse environmental conditions

Project Information

PhotoBoost

Grant agreement ID: 862127

DOI

10.3030/862127

Project closed

EC signature date 17 March 2020

Start date 1 April 2020

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Biotechnology

Total cost

€ 4 847 105,00

EU contribution

€ 4 647 105,00

Coordinated by

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (2)

Policy and communication advisory meeting
Policy expert interview report

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

Correlation of increased photosynthetic performance and reporter protein yield in cell-free lysates confirmed

Correlation of increased photosynthetic performance and reporter protein yield in cellfree lysates confirmed

Photosynthetically active cell-free lysates from green potato cell suspension cultures

Photosynthetically active cellfree lysates from green potato cell suspension cultures available

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (9)

High non‐photochemical quenching of VPZ transgenic potato plants limits CO₂ assimilation under high light conditions and reduces tuber yield under fluctuating light

Author(s): Günter G. Lehretz, Anja Schneider, Dario Leister, Uwe Sonnewald
Published in: Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Issue 64, 2023, Page(s) 1821-1832, ISSN 1672-9072
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13320

New genomic techniques, old divides: Stakeholder attitudes towards new biotechnology regulation in the EU and UK

Author(s): Jonathan Menary, Sebastian S. Fuller
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0287276, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287276

Assimilate highway to sink organs – Physiological consequences of SP6A overexpression in transgenic potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)

Author(s): Günter G. Lehretz, Sophia Sonnewald, Uwe Sonnewald
Published in: Journal of Plant Physiology, Issue 266, 2025, Page(s) 153530, ISSN 0176-1617
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2021.153530

Future-Proofing Potato for Drought and Heat Tolerance by Overexpression of Hexokinase and SP6A

Author(s): Günter G. Lehretz, Sophia Sonnewald, Nitsan Lugassi, David Granot, Uwe Sonnewald
Published in: Frontiers in Plant Science, Issue 11, 2021, ISSN 1664-462X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.614534

Perspectives on improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield

Author(s): Roberta Croce, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Young B Cho, Maria Ermakova, Jeremy Harbinson, Tracy Lawson, Alistair J McCormick, Krishna K Niyogi, Donald R Ort, Dhruv Patel-Tupper, Paolo Pesaresi, Christine R
Published in: The Plant Cell, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 3944-3973, ISSN 1040-4651
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koae132

Regulation of Rubisco activity by interaction with chloroplast metabolites

Author(s): Ana K.M. Lobo, Douglas J. Orr, Elizabete Carmo-Silva
Published in: Biochemical Journal, Issue 481, 2024, Page(s) 1043-1056, ISSN 0264-6021
Publisher: Portland Press, Ltd.
DOI: 10.1042/bcj20240209

Regulation of Rubisco activity in crops

Author(s): Joana Amaral, Ana K. M. Lobo, Elizabete Carmo‐Silva
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 241, 2025, Page(s) 35-51, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.19369

Kinetic modeling identifies targets for engineering improved photosynthetic efficiency in potato (<i>Solanum tuberosum</i> cv. Solara)

Author(s): Supreeta Vijayakumar, Yu Wang, Günter Lehretz, Samuel Taylor, Elizabete Carmo‐Silva, Stephen Long
Published in: The Plant Journal, Issue 117, 2024, Page(s) 561-572, ISSN 0960-7412
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16512

Efficient <i>Agrobacterium</i> ‐Mediated Transformation of Green <i>Arabidopsis</i> Suspension Cells

Author(s): Matthias Buntru, Stefano Di Fiore, Nils Hahnengress, Helga Schinkel, Stefan Schillberg, Greta Nölke
Published in: Biotechnology Journal, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1860-6768
Publisher: Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA
DOI: 10.1002/biot.70145