Photorespiration in the context of Rubisco biochemistry, CO2 diffusion and metabolism

FA Busch - The Plant Journal, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Photorespiratory metabolism is essential for plants to maintain functional photosynthesis in
an oxygen‐containing environment. Because the oxygenation reaction of Rubisco is …

Photorespiration and the Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis

RF Sage, TL Sage, F Kocacinar - Annual review of plant biology, 2012‏ - annualreviews.org
C4 photosynthesis is one of the most convergent evolutionary phenomena in the biological
world, with at least 66 independent origins. Evidence from these lineages consistently …

A portrait of the C4 photosynthetic family on the 50th anniversary of its discovery: species number, evolutionary lineages, and Hall of Fame

RF Sage - Journal of experimental botany, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Fifty years ago, the C4 photosynthetic pathway was first characterized. In the subsequent
five decades, much has been learned about C4 plants, such that it is now possible to place …

The evolution of C4 photosynthesis

RF Sage - New phytologist, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
C4 photosynthesis is a series of anatomical and biochemical modifications that concentrate
CO2 around the carboxylating enzyme Rubisco, thereby increasing photosynthetic efficiency …

The C4 plant lineages of planet Earth

RF Sage, PA Christin, EJ Edwards - Journal of experimental …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
Using isotopic screens, phylogenetic assessments, and 45 years of physiological data, it is
now possible to identify most of the evolutionary lineages expressing the C4 photosynthetic …

Carbon isotope fractionation between diet and bioapatite in ungulate mammals and implications for ecological and paleoecological studies

TE Cerling, JM Harris - Oecologia, 1999‏ - Springer
The isotope enrichment ɛ* of 13 C between tooth enamel of large ruminant mammals and
their diet is 14.1±0.5‰. This value was obtained by analyzing both the dental enamel of a …

C4 photosynthesis and water stress

O Ghannoum - Annals of botany, 2009‏ - academic.oup.com
Background In contrast to C3 photosynthesis, the response of C4 photosynthesis to water
stress has been less-well studied in spite of the significant contribution of C4 plants to the …

Exploiting the engine of C4 photosynthesis

RF Sage, XG Zhu - Journal of experimental botany, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
Ever since the discovery of C4 photosynthesis in the mid-1960s, plant biologists have
envisaged the introduction of the C4 photosynthetic pathway into C3 crops such as rice and …

Photorespiration and nitrate assimilation: a major intersection between plant carbon and nitrogen

AJ Bloom - Photosynthesis research, 2015‏ - Springer
C 3 carbon fixation has a bad reputation, primarily because it is associated with
photorespiration, a biochemical pathway thought to waste a substantial amount of the …

Dietary changes of large herbivores in the Turkana Basin, Kenya from 4 to 1 Ma

TE Cerling, SA Andanje, SA Blumenthal… - Proceedings of the …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
A large stable isotope dataset from East and Central Africa from ca. 30 regional collection
sites that range from forest to grassland shows that most extant East and Central African …