Identifying potential barriers to transplanting modified forms of the CO2-fixing enzyme, Rubisco, into plants.

提高作物更有效地利用水、光和化肥的能力将产生经济效益，并缓解与农业实践相关的环境影响。人们认为，这种改进可以通过提高光合作用蛋白质Rubisco的效率来实现，Rubisco固定了生物圈中的大部分二氧化碳。这里提出的研究使用了我开发的独特的Rubisco移植能力，以提高我们对Rubisco是如何处理的以及其在植物中的活动调节的基本理解。这将为我们正在进行的改造和移植更高效的Rubisco作物的努力铺平道路。

Improving the ability of crops to use water, light and fertiliser more efficiently would have economic benefits and ease the environmental impacts associated with agricultural practices. It is thought that such improvements can be made by enhancing the efficiency of the photosynthetic protein, Rubisco, which fixes most of the CO2 in the biosphere. The research proposed here uses unique Rubisco transplantation capabilities that I have developed to improve our fundamental understanding of how Rubisco is processed and its activity regulated in plants. This will pave the way for our ongoing efforts to engineer and transplant more efficient Rubisco into crops.