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During COVID, scientists turn to computers to understand C4 photosynthesis

When COVID closed down their lab, a team of researchers turned to computational approaches to understand what makes some plants better adapted to transform light and carbon dioxide into yield through ...
JSTOR Daily

The non-photosynthetic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylases of the C4 dicot Flaveria trinervia — implications for the evolution of C4 photosynthesis

C4 phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylases (PEP-Case; EC 4.1.1.3) have evolved from ancestral non-photosynthetic (C3) isoforms during the evolution of angiosperms and thereby gained distinct kinetic and ...
JSTOR Daily

Carbon-isotope discrimination by leaves of Flaveria species exhibiting different amounts of C 3 - and C 4-cycle co-function

Carbon-isotope ratios were examined as δ13C values in several C3, C4, and C3—C4 Flaveria species, and compared to predicted δ13C values generated from theoretical models. The measured δ13C values were ...
MIT Technology Review

Supercharged Photosynthesis

In December, geneticists announced that they’d made a major advance in engineering rice plants to carry out photosynthesis in a more efficient way—much as corn and many fast-growing weeds do. The ...