Re-creation of a key step in the evolutionary switch from C3 to C4 leaf anatomy
The C4 photosynthetic pathway accounts for ~25% of primary productivity on the planet despite being used by only 3% of species. Because C4 plants are higher yielding than C3 plants, efforts are underway to introduce the C4 pathway into the C3 crop rice. This is an ambitious endeavor; however, the C4...
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Elsevier
2017
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