Manipulating Photosynthesis in Transgenic Plants
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens -mediated transformation of plants provides a relatively straightforward means of altering the amounts of individual proteins involved in photosynthetic processes. By the introduction of additional copies of genes or of chimeric cDNA constructs, it is possible to produce transgenic plants with increased or decreased amounts of specific photosynthetic components. These plants can then be analyzed to examine the effects of the altered protein levels on a wide range of physiological or biochemical processes.