Plants increase CO2 uptake by assimilating nitrogen via the photorespiratory pathway

Nature Plants

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 46-54

  Busch, Florian A ^a   Sage, Rowan F ^b   Farquhar, Graham D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

CARBON CYCLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION RESPONSE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

EID: 85037679010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-017-0065-x     Document Type: Article

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