Rubisco is not really so bad

Plant Cell and Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 705-716

  Bathellier, Camille ^a   Tcherkez, Guillaume ^a   Lorimer, George H ^b   Farquhar, Graham D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon reactions; carboxylation; catalytic efficiency; CO2; oxygenase; photosynthesis; rubisco

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENZYME; INHIBITION; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REACTION KINETICS;

RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PLANT;

PLANTS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

EID: 85042560504     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.13149     Document Type: Review

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