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ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2012

Improving carbon fixation pathways.

Daniel C Ducat, Pamela A Silver

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Frontiers in plant science · 2025
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  9. Engineering Rubisco to enhance COSynthetic and systems biotechnology · 2024
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  15. Endophyte-inoculated rhizomes ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2023
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  17. Environmental Galenics: large-scale fortification of extant microbiomes with engineered bioremediation agents.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  19. Modulations in ChlorophyllInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Daniel C DucatDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, United States.
Pamela A Silver

Funding

Design Principals of Photobiological MetabolismF32GM093516 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI DUCAT, DANIEL C · 2010 to 2012
$126k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM093516NIGMS NIH HHS F32GM093516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A recent resurgence in basic and applied research on photosynthesis has been driven in part by recognition that fulfilling future food and energy requirements will necessitate improvements in crop carbon-fixation efficiencies. Photosynthesis in traditional terrestrial crops is being reexamined in light of molecular strategies employed by photosynthetic microbes to enhance the activity of the Calvin cycle. Synthetic biology is well-situated to provide original approaches for compartmentalizing and enhancing photosynthetic reactions in a species independent manner. Furthermore, the elucidation of alternative carbon-fixation routes distinct from the Calvin cycle raises possibilities that novel pathways and organisms can be utilized to fix atmospheric carbon dioxide into useful materials.

Indexed as

Carbon CycleGenetic EngineeringPhotosynthesis

Identifiers

PMID22647231
PMCPMC3424341

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