C4 photosynthesis in the rice paddy: Insights from the noxious weed Echinochloa glabrescens1[OPEN]

Plant Physiology

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 57-73

  Covshoff, Sarah ^a   Szecowka, Marek ^a   Hughes, Thomas E ^a,b   Smith Unna, Richard ^a   Kelly, Steven ^b   Bailey, Karen J ^c   Sage, Tammy L ^d   Pachebat, Justin A ^a,e   Leegood, Richard ^c   Hibberd, Julian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CHLOROPLAST; CROP; ECHINOCHLOA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ORYZA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WEED;

CHLOROPLASTS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECHINOCHLOA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; ORYZA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT CELLS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT WEEDS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84953208234     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00889     Document Type: Article

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