ArticleJournal of experimental botany2016
Tracking the evolutionary rise of C4 metabolism.
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- A comparison of stomatal conductance responses to blue and red light between C3 and C4 photosynthetic species in three phylogenetically-controlled experiments.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Ectopic expression of CPhysiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2020Review
- Efficient 2-phosphoglycolate degradation is required to maintain carbon assimilation and allocation in the C4 plant Flaveria bidentis.Journal of experimental botany · 2019Article
- Experimental botany in 2017.Journal of experimental botany · 2017Article
- Cosmopolitan Species As Models for Ecophysiological Responses to Global Change: The Common ReedFrontiers in plant science · 2017Review
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Abstract
Upregulation of the C4 metabolic cycle is a major step in the evolution of C4 photosynthesis. Why this happened remains unclear, in part because of difficulties measuring the C4 cycle in situ in C3-C4 intermediate species. Now, Alonso-Cantabrana and von Caemmerer (2016) have described a new approach for quantifying C4 cycle activity, thereby providing the means to analyze its upregulation in an evolutionary context.
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