Open AccessHow to Make a C4 Plant: Insight from Comparative Transcriptome Analysis
Author(s) -
Nancy A. Eckardt
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.111.230612
Subject(s) - rubisco , photorespiration , oxygenase , biology , carbon fixation , pyruvate carboxylase , biochemistry , ribulose , transcriptome , enzyme , botany , photosynthesis , gene , gene expression
Rubisco (for ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase), the enzyme that catalyzes the first major step in carbon fixation, is notoriously inefficient in this role, owing to its function as an oxygenase as well as a carboxylase. Photorespiration, the pathway followed when Rubisco catalyzes the
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