Special issue on inorganic carbon concentrating mechanisms

Autor: Moroney, James V., Long, Benedict M., Mccormick, Alistair J., Raven, John A.
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Moroney, J V, Long, B M, Mccormick, A J & Raven, J A 2023, ' Special issue on inorganic carbon concentrating mechanisms ', Photosynthesis research, vol. 156, no. 2, pp. 179-180 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-023-01013-1
ISSN: 1573-5079
0166-8595
Popis: This special issue provides an exciting update on the long standing question: how can algae and some photosynthetic bacteria be so effective in acquiring CO2 from the environment? In the 1970s, the fact that Rubisco catalyzed the oxygenation of RuBP as well as its carboxylation was well understood (Jensen and Barr 1977). In addition, all Rubisco appeared to have a fairly low affinity for its substrate CO2. However, the high rates of photosynthesis measured with many algae and cyanobacteria at low CO2 concentrations was in apparent contradiction to what we knew about Rubisco kinetics (Kaplan, Badger and Berry 1980). In addition, most algae do not perform C4-type photosynthesis—the only mechanism known at that time to concentrate CO2 for photosynthesis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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