Objective
The project aims at increasing growth rates and yield of crop plants by improving their carbon fixing capabilities. It gathers the expertise of eight European laboratories with state-of-the-art structural and molecular biology techniques to map and characterise the carbon fixing enzyme ribulose.. 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) from marine arctic algae, which have been found to harbor a superior form of Rubisco. The feasibility of exploiting the results for agriculture will be tested in two model studies in which the endogenous Rubisco enzyme in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and in crop plants will be replaced by the more efficient variant from marine algae. The research, which is supported by an SME involvement, will help European agriculture to stay competitive in a field which, because of its potential economic impact, is heavily investigated in the US and other western countries.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology phycology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
- natural sciences biological sciences molecular biology
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Coordinator
750 07 UPPSALA
Sweden
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