13 February 2025
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Heat waves flourish “hot potatoes” plants
A genetic tweak keeps potatoes in effectiveness
When a gorching heat wave In June 2022, Illinois made by Katherine Meacham-Hensold, the new variety of crop physiologists survived the new variety of potato bioingineeredia. The plant gave 30 percent of their large red tubers than a normal plant of the same condition, according to a final study in Global Change Biology.
“This study is not particularly noteworthy, because it shows the real benefits in a field in the field of cropstorcycle,” says Smith at the University of Oxford, he did not participate in the study. “No reason is applied to this technology into more crops.”
Potato, meacham-hrrend and his colleagues is an engineering process of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In most plants called photorespiration, the heat-boot process focused. To do this, the key photosynthesis known as Rubisco is the key and begins to be toxic. Rubisco molecules must connect carbon dioxide to perform photosynthesis, but about a quarter of the time they take oxygen, and this wrong process occurs more often at high temperatures. This efficiency can reduce crop performance as much as 50 percent.
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In Potato Engineering, a gene embedded in the nucleus of plant cells, which he created a protein that traveled to the chloroplast, in the organone used in photosynthesis. There he broke the toxic by-product, so the chloroplast should not be sent to other organizers. This saved energy, eating local food saves the energy of the truck throughout the town.
In the Potato Engineering 2022 growing season in the Illinois test area, a heat wave brought four days in a row greater than 95 degrees Fahrenheit. But a genetic change in the new potato, almost a third can exceed the performance of the next generation. “We really surprised us,” said Meacham-Hensold. The process of photosynthesis is a promising goal of agricultural engineering, as it has increased crop performance without any additional soil use and fertilizer. The results are exciting, Smith says, even if it would like to see data from future growing seasons.
New techniques can help the crops adapt to climate change. Similar strategies have been used before the rice, but the study shows the decline in food crop, Meacham Hensonld has frozen and raised the tubers, starch, fibers, sugars, protein, calcium, potassium, calcium, potassium, calcium Iron and vitamins bAnd and C.
Then the researchers are working on soy and cows; The latter is an important “food safety culture in African countries,” said Meacham-Hensold. High-performance soy varieties will have the same genetic change in the field this year.
