Photorespiration and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 19-47

  Sage, Rowan F ^a   Sage, Tammy L ^a   Kocacinar, Ferit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

carbon concentrating mechanisms; climate change; photosynthetic evolution; temperature

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

AMARANTHACEAE; ANGIOSPERM; CELL RESPIRATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POACEAE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CELL RESPIRATION; CHENOPODIACEAE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POACEAE; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864698519     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042811-105511     Document Type: Review

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