Elucidating the role of carbon dioxide in the photosynthetic enzyme Ribulose-1, 5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/ Oxygenase: Towards enhancing photosyntheti

全球粮食安全日益受到世界人口迅速增长和城市化、土壤退化和气候变化导致的可耕地日益有限的威胁。光合作用的改善被认为是未来提高作物产量的关键。一种方法是增加Rubisco活性位点周围的CO2局部浓度，这将限制可能与氧气发生的竞争和浪费反应。这被认为是提高作物产量的潜在途径。该项目可以阐明一组潜在的农用化学品，这些化学品将提高光合作用速率，从而提高单位面积的作物产量。体外培养可以作为在某些条件下植物细胞组织行为的第一近似。我的研究项目是研究碳酸酐酶模拟物在增加光合酶rubisco活性方面的作用，因为这种酶是植物光合效率低下的主要原因之一。

Global food security is increasingly threatened by the rapidly expanding world population and progressively limited cultivatable land due to; urbanisation, soil degradation and climate change. Photosynthetic improvements are thought to be essential for making future improvements to crop yields. One approach is to increase the local concentration of CO2 around Rubisco's active site, which would limit the competing and wasteful reaction that can occur with Oxygen. This is believed to be a potential route for improving crop yields. This project could elucidate a potential group of agrochemicals that would improve the rate of photosynthesis and consequently the crop yield per area. In-vitro cultures can act as a first approximation to the behaviour of plant cell tissue under certain conditions. My research project is investigating the effect of carbonic anhydrase mimics at increasing the activity of the photosynthetic enzyme rubisco, as this enzyme is one of the major causes of photosynthetic inefficiency in plants.