An international long-term research collaboration aimed at creating high yielding and water use efficient rice varieties, has successfully installed part of the photosynthetic machinery from maize ...

The C4-photosynthetic carbon cycle is an elaborated addition to the classical C3-photosynthetic pathway, which improves solar conversion efficiency. The key enzyme in this pathway, phosphoenolpyruvate ...

Carbon dioxide and light intensity were actually the limiting factors favoring C4 at that time." "What we show," says Erol Akçay, an assistant professor of biology at Penn, "is that the increased ...

Two species of Atriplex were grown under low temperature (8 C day/6 C night) and high temperature (28 C day/20 C night) regimes. The photosynthetic capacity of these plants was studied as a function ...

An impressive body of evidence published this week reveals the answer to a mystery that has puzzled plant scientists for more than 30 years: the role of the molecule suberin in the leaves of some of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Bundle sheath cells from leaves of a variety of C4 species contained little or no carbonic anhydrase activity. The proportion of total leaf ...