title: Cura Annonae-Chemically Boosting Crop Yields Through Metabolic Feeding of a Plant Signaling Precursor.
abstract: The cream of the crop: With the world facing a projected shortfall of crops by 2050, new approaches are needed to boost crop yields. Metabolic feeding of plants with photocaged trehalose-6-phosphate (Tre6P) can increase levels of the signaling metabolite Tre6P in the plant. Reprogramming of cellular metabolism by Tre6P stimulates a program of plant growth and enhanced crop yields, while boosting starch content.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.
authors.forename: David J
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-6897-5558
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Vocadlo
mesh_terms: D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013213:Starch / Q000378:metabolism; D013403:Sugar Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism; D014199:Trehalose / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D013403:Sugar Phosphates; C082722:trehalose-6-phosphate; D013213:Starch; D014199:Trehalose
keywords: crop science; food security; glycobiology; metabolic engineering; trehalose