Response to Comments on Soybean photosynthesis and crop yield is improved by accelerating recovery from photoprotection

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: De Souza, Amanda P.; Burgess, Steven J.; Doran, Lynn; Manukyan, Lusya; Hansen, Jeffrey; Maryn, Nina; Leonelli, Lauribel; Niyogi, Krishna K.; Stephen, Stephen P.
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Howard Hughes Medical Institute; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; United States Department of Energy (DOE); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 刊物名称: SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0036-13741
• DOI: 10.1126/science.adf2189
• 发表日期: 2023-02-24
• 关键词: Efficiency; light; capacity; row

摘要

We recently demonstrated that accelerating the relaxation of nonphotochemical quenching leads to higher soybean photosynthetic efficiency and yield. In response, Sinclair et al. assert that improved photosynthesis cannot improve crop yields and that there is only one valid experimental design for proving a genetic improvement in yield. We explain here why neither assertion is valid.