Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Plasma membrane H+-ATPase overexpression increases rice yield via simultaneous enhancement of nutrient uptake and photosynthesis

  • Maoxing Zhang,
  • Yin Wang,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Feiyun Xu,
  • Ming Ding,
  • Wenxiu Ye,
  • Yuya Kawai,
  • Yosuke Toda,
  • Yuki Hayashi,
  • Takamasa Suzuki,
  • Houqing Zeng,
  • Liang Xiao,
  • Xin Xiao,
  • Jin Xu,
  • Shiwei Guo,
  • Feng Yan,
  • Qirong Shen,
  • Guohua Xu,
  • Toshinori Kinoshita,
  • Yiyong Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-20964-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Improved utilisation of nitrogen and carbon could boost agricultural productivity. Here Zhang et al. show that overexpression of a single gene, encoding the plasma membrane H+ -ATPase 1 OSA1, is able to increase both carbon fixation via photosynthesis and nitrogen assimilation via ammonium uptake in rice.