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Resilience under climate change

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Maintenance of active photosystem II requires rapid turnover of the D1 protein, which is encoded in the chloroplast genome. Nuclear expression of D1 is now used to improve photosynthesis and crop yield under normal and heat-stress conditions.

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Fig. 1: Turnover of the D1 protein during the repair of PSII: nuclear expression of the D1 protein enhances photosynthesis.

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