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The inevitability of C4 photosynthesis
eLife, 2014 Elements of C4 photosynthesis—a complex adaptation that increases photosynthetic efficiency—may have evolved first to correct an intercellular nitrogen imbalance, and only later evolved a central role in carbon fixation.
Erika J Edwards
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Strategies for improving C4 photosynthesis [PDF]
Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2016 Recent activities to improve photosynthetic performance in crop plants has focused mainly on C3 photosynthesis where there are clear identified targets such as improving Rubisco kinetics, installation of a CO2 concentrating mechanism and alleviating limitations in chloroplast electron transport.
von Caemmerer, Susanne +1 more
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Modeling the Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis [PDF]
Cell, 2013 The prediction and verification of adaptive trajectories on macroevolutionary timescales have rarely been achieved for complex biological systems. Employing a model linking biological information at multiple scales, Heckmann et al. simulate likely sequences of evolutionary changes from C3 to C4 photosynthesis biochemistry.
Beer, Karlyn D. +2 more
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The Plant Genome, 2021 C4 plants are believed to have evolved from C3 plants through various C3–C4 intermediate stages in which a photorespiration‐dependent CO2 concentration system known as C2 photosynthesis operates.
Yukimi Y. Taniguchi +7 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 Single cell C4 (SCC4) plants, discovered around two decades ago, are promising materials for efforts for genetic engineering of C4 photosynthesis into C3 crops.
Baris Uzilday +4 more
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PhytoFrontiers, 2022 There are approximately 700 obligate biotrophic species grouped into 20 genera (Oomycota, Peronosporaceae) that cause downy mildew diseases. In 2001, Dick hypothesized that diversification of downy mildew species was driven in part by host plant ...
William J. Davis, Jo Anne Crouch
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 C4 photosynthesis is a complex trait that evolved from its ancestral C3 photosynthesis by recruiting pre-existing genes. These co-opted genes were changed in many aspects compared to their counterparts in C3 species.
Ming-Ju Amy Lyu +5 more
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Current Biology, 2013 SummaryThe number of humans on earth is increasing, generating concerns about food security and spurring efforts throughout the world to increase the productivity of crops. If a way could be found to increase the yield of crops by, say, 20%, it would have immense impact on global food supplies.
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Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2022 Empirical studies have shown that plant photosynthetic responses to environmental change can vary over time due to acclimation, but acclimation responses are often not included in Earth System Models.
Helen G. Scott, Nicholas G. Smith
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Plants, 2021 The photosynthetic capacity of leaves is determined by their content of nitrogen (N). Nitrogen involved in photosynthesis is divided between soluble proteins and thylakoid membrane proteins.
Aleksandra Urban +3 more
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