Regulation and Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis

U Schlüter, APM Weber - Annual review of plant biology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
C4 photosynthesis evolved multiple times independently from ancestral C3 photosynthesis
in a broad range of flowering land plant families and in both monocots and dicots. The …

Role of C4 photosynthetic enzyme isoforms in C3 plants and their potential applications in improving agronomic traits in crops

J Singh, S Garai, S Das, JK Thakur, BC Tripathy - Photosynthesis research, 2022 - Springer
As compared to C3, C4 plants have higher photosynthetic rates and better tolerance to high
temperature and drought. These traits are highly beneficial in the current scenario of global …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering photosynthesis: progress and perspectives

DJ Orr, AM Pereira, P da Fonseca Pereira… - …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Photosynthesis is the basis of primary productivity on the planet. Crop breeding has
sustained steady improvements in yield to keep pace with population growth increases. Yet …

The dual-targeted prolyl aminopeptidase PAP1 is involved in proline accumulation in response to stress and during pollen development

AS Ghifari, PF Teixeira, B Kmiec, N Singh… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Plant endosymbiotic organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts harbour a wide array
of biochemical reactions. As a part of protein homeostasis to maintain organellar activity and …

Lack of leaf carbonic anhydrase activity eliminates the C4 carbon‐concentrating mechanism requiring direct diffusion of CO2 into bundle sheath cells

RJ DiMario, R Giuliani, N Ubierna… - Plant, Cell & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbonic anhydrase (CA) performs the first enzymatic step of C4 photosynthesis by
catalysing the reversible hydration of dissolved CO2 that diffuses into mesophyll cells from …

The molecular evolution of C4 photosynthesis: opportunities for understanding and improving the world's most productive plants

M Niklaus, S Kelly - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2019 - academic.oup.com
C4 photosynthesis is a convergent evolutionary trait that enhances photosynthetic efficiency
in a variety of environmental conditions. It has evolved repeatedly following a fall in …

Leaf transcriptomes from C3, C3-C4 intermediate, and C4  Neurachne species give insights into C4 photosynthesis evolution

M Lauterbach, A Bräutigam, H Clayton… - Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The C4 photosynthetic pathway is hypothesized to have evolved from the ancestral C3
pathway through progressive changes in leaf anatomy and biochemistry with extant C3-C4 …

Decoding the guardians of cotton resilience: A comprehensive exploration of the βCA genes and its role in Verticillium dahliae resistance

M Yang, MJ Umer, H Wang, J Han, J Han… - Physiologia …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Plant Carbonic anhydrases (Cas) have been shown to be stress‐responsive
enzymes that may play a role in adapting to adverse conditions. Cotton is a significant …

Identification and molecular characterization of the alternative spliced variants of beta carbonic anhydrase 1 (βCA1) from Arabidopsis thaliana

J Shen, Z Li, Y Fu, J Liang - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are ubiquitous zinc metalloenzymes that catalyze the
interconversion of carbon dioxide and bicarbonate. Higher plants mainly contain the three …

Herbarium genomics retraces the origins of C4-specific carbonic anhydrase in Andropogoneae (Poaceae)

G Besnard, ME Bianconi, J Hackel, S Manzi… - Botany …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Natural history collections are traditionally used for taxonomic research, but their relevance
can extend into studies of molecular evolution as illustrated here using the example of C4 …