Respiratory energy demands and scope for demand expansion and destruction

Bathe, Ulschan; Leong, Bryan J.; Van Gelder, Kristen; Barbier, Guillaume G.; Henry, Christopher S.; Amthor, Jeffrey S.; Hanson, Andrew D.

doi:10.1093/plphys/kiac493

Respiratory energy demands and scope for demand expansion and destruction

Journal Article · Sat Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Plant Physiology (Bethesda)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac493· OSTI ID:1905222

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University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States); University of Florida
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
Ginkgo Bioworks, Boston, MA (United States)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (United States)

Photosynthesis is the primary energy input to plants, but most plant metabolic processes are powered much or all of the time by ATP and NAD(P)H that come from respiratory oxidation of photosynthetically produced carbohydrates, that is, “dark respiration” (Amthor, 1994). The processes of growth, nutrient uptake and assimilation, active transport, and maintenance are thus all clients of respiration and compete for their share of a respiratory energy budget that is capped by photosynthate income. The economic principle of opportunity cost applies to these clients’ competing demands: spending respiratory energy on process A means missing the benefit of investing that energy in process B (Mahmoudabadi et al., 2019). This principle is key to assessing prospects for crop improvement by metabolic engineering. As de Lorenzo (2015) put it: “metabolism…frames and ultimately resolves whether a given genetic program (existing…or engineered) can be deployed or not.” Foreign or reconfigured native processes bolted on to a crop-plant’s metabolic chassis must compete for respiratory energy with native ones without crashing the energy economy. A proviso on plant carbon budgets is that photosynthetic carbon fixation (“source activity”) can in certain cases increase to meet increased carbon demand (“sink activity”), that is, budget envelopes are not always fixed (Smith et al., 2018). However, as there is some consensus that productivity is most often limited or co-limited by carbon supply (Ainsworth and Long, 2005; Körner, 2015; Sonnewald and Fernie, 2018), we make this our basal assumption in the analyses below.

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Research Organization:: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; USDA, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA); National Science Foundation (NSF); C.V. Griffin, Sr. Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0020153; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1905222

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2320232
OSTI ID: 1993260

Journal Information:: Plant Physiology (Bethesda), Journal Name: Plant Physiology (Bethesda) Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 191; ISSN 0032-0889

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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