Temperature responses of Rubisco from Paniceae grasses provide opportunities for improving C 3 photosynthesis

Nature Plants

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Sharwood, Robert E ^a,b   Ghannoum, Oula ^b,c   Kapralov, Maxim V ^d   Gunn, Laura H ^a,e   Whitney, Spencer M ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POACEAE;

CARBON; MODELS, GENETIC; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POACEAE; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

EID: 84999853092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2016.186     Document Type: Article

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