ReviewPhotosynthesis research2015
Photorespiration and nitrate assimilation: a major intersection between plant carbon and nitrogen.
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83 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Primary nitrate responses mediated by calcium signalling and diverse protein phosphorylation.Journal of experimental botany · 2020Pooled it
- How Plants May Maintain Protein Homeostasis Under Rising Atmospheric COPlant, cell & environment · 2026Review
- Elucidation of inorganic nitrogen utilization characteristics in Coix lacryma-jobi L. seedlings under variable ammonium/nitrate ratios via theBMC plant biology · 2026Article
- The grain protein yield of barley under future drought is modified by the joint action of elevated CO2 and temperature.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Article
- Photorespiration benefits.Nature plants · 2026Article
- Shortcutting photorespiration: avenues and challenges toward realizing higher-yielding photorespiratory bypass crops.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Investigating the Impact of Elevated COPlant, cell & environment · 2025Article
- Evolutionary and functional relationships between plant and microbial CThe New phytologist · 2025Review
- Crops and rising atmospheric COPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Carboxylation and Oxygenation Kinetics and Large Subunit (rbcL) DNA Sequences for Rubisco From Two Ecotypes of Plantago lanceolata L. That Are Native to Sites Differing in Atmospheric COPlant, cell & environment · 2025Article
- Nitrogen Assimilation Plays a Role in Balancing the Chloroplastic Glutathione Redox Potential Under High Light Conditions.Plant, cell & environment · 2025Article
- Plant Nitrogen Assimilation: A Climate Change Perspective.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The structure of Mn(II)-bound Rubisco from Spinacia oleracea.Journal of inorganic biochemistry · 2024Article
- Flux Calculation for Primary Metabolism Reveals Changes in Allocation of Nitrogen to Different Amino Acid Families When Photorespiratory Activity Changes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- The end game(s) of photosynthetic carbon metabolism.Plant physiology · 2024Review
- The serine-glycine-one-carbon metabolic network orchestrates changes in nitrogen and sulfur metabolism and shapes plant development.The Plant cell · 2024Article
- Fulvic acid alleviates cadmium-induced root growth inhibition by regulating antioxidant enzyme activity and carbon-nitrogen metabolism in apple seedlings.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Melatonin mitigates root growth inhibition and carbon-nitrogen metabolism imbalance in apple rootstock M9T337 under high nitrogen stress.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Identification and Functional Characterization of cis-Regulatory Elements of Key Photorespiratory Genes in Response to Short-Term Abiotic Stress Conditions.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Isotopic clumping in wood as a proxy for photorespiration in trees.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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Abstract
C3 carbon fixation has a bad reputation, primarily because it is associated with photorespiration, a biochemical pathway thought to waste a substantial amount of the carbohydrate produced in a plant. This review presents evidence collected over nearly a century that (1) Rubisco when associated with Mn(2+) generates additional reductant during photorespiration, (2) this reductant participates in the assimilation of nitrate into protein, and (3) this nitrate assimilation facilitates the use of a nitrogen source that other organisms tend to avoid. This phenomenon explains the continued dominance of C3 plants during the past 23 million years of low CO2 atmospheres as well as the decline in plant protein concentrations as atmospheric CO2 rises.
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