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Sterling Ericsson

Improving photosynthesis to then massively increase agricultural development is one of the holy grails of plant biology.

Therefore, understanding the influence of the enzyme Rubisco is key, but difficult due to the massive chloroplast regulatory systems involved.

Now, Australian researchers have inserted working Rubisco copies into E. coli to better analyze how it functions.

academic.oup.com/jxb/article-a

OUP AcademicEscherichia coli expressing chloroplast chaperones as a proxy to test heterologous Rubisco production in leavesA modular Golden Gate cloning system developed for expressing plant Rubisco and tobacco chloroplast chaperones in E. colishows limited resolution in its capacit