Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice

High sunlight can raise plant growth rates but can potentially cause cellular damage. The likelihood of deleterious effects is lowered by a sophisticated set of photoprotective mechanisms, one of the most important being the controlled dissipation of energy from chlorophyll within photosystem II (PS...

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Main Authors: Hubbart, Stella, Smillie, Ian R.A., Heatley, Matthew, Swarup, Ranjan, Foo, Chuan Ching, Zhao, Liang, Murchie, Erik H.
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author Hubbart, Stella
Smillie, Ian R.A.
Heatley, Matthew
Swarup, Ranjan
Foo, Chuan Ching
Zhao, Liang
Murchie, Erik H.
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Smillie, Ian R.A.
Heatley, Matthew
Swarup, Ranjan
Foo, Chuan Ching
Zhao, Liang
Murchie, Erik H.
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description High sunlight can raise plant growth rates but can potentially cause cellular damage. The likelihood of deleterious effects is lowered by a sophisticated set of photoprotective mechanisms, one of the most important being the controlled dissipation of energy from chlorophyll within photosystem II (PSII) measured as non-photochemical quenching (NPQ). Although ubiquitous, the role of NPQ in plant productivity remains uncertain because it momentarily reduces the quantum efficiency of photosynthesis. Here we used plants overexpressing the gene encoding a central regulator of NPQ, the protein PsbS, within a major crop species (rice) to assess the effect of photoprotection at the whole canopy scale. We accounted for canopy light interception, to our knowledge for the first time in this context. We show that in comparison to wild-type plants, psbS overexpressors increased canopy radiation use efficiency and grain yield in fluctuating light, demonstrating that photoprotective mechanisms should be altered to improve rice crop productivity.
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spelling nottingham-504382018-03-22T12:20:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50438/ Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice Hubbart, Stella Smillie, Ian R.A. Heatley, Matthew Swarup, Ranjan Foo, Chuan Ching Zhao, Liang Murchie, Erik H. High sunlight can raise plant growth rates but can potentially cause cellular damage. The likelihood of deleterious effects is lowered by a sophisticated set of photoprotective mechanisms, one of the most important being the controlled dissipation of energy from chlorophyll within photosystem II (PSII) measured as non-photochemical quenching (NPQ). Although ubiquitous, the role of NPQ in plant productivity remains uncertain because it momentarily reduces the quantum efficiency of photosynthesis. Here we used plants overexpressing the gene encoding a central regulator of NPQ, the protein PsbS, within a major crop species (rice) to assess the effect of photoprotection at the whole canopy scale. We accounted for canopy light interception, to our knowledge for the first time in this context. We show that in comparison to wild-type plants, psbS overexpressors increased canopy radiation use efficiency and grain yield in fluctuating light, demonstrating that photoprotective mechanisms should be altered to improve rice crop productivity. Nature Publishing Group 2018-03-22 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50438/8/s42003-018-0026-6.pdf Hubbart, Stella, Smillie, Ian R.A., Heatley, Matthew, Swarup, Ranjan, Foo, Chuan Ching, Zhao, Liang and Murchie, Erik H. (2018) Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice. Communications Biology, 1 . 22/1-22/12. ISSN 2399-3642 light responses; non-photochemical quenching https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0026-6 doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0026-6 doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0026-6
spellingShingle light responses; non-photochemical quenching
Hubbart, Stella
Smillie, Ian R.A.
Heatley, Matthew
Swarup, Ranjan
Foo, Chuan Ching
Zhao, Liang
Murchie, Erik H.
Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice
title Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice
title_full Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice
title_fullStr Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice
title_full_unstemmed Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice
title_short Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice
title_sort enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice
topic light responses; non-photochemical quenching
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50438/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50438/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50438/