The large pools of metabolites involved in intercellular metabolite shuttles in C4photosynthesis provide enormous flexibility and robustness in a fluctuating light environment

Predicting C4 Photosynthesis Evolution: Modular, Individually Adaptive Steps on a Mount Fuji Fitness Landscape

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Photorespiration and the Evolution of C4Photosynthesis

(2012) Rowan F. Sage et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Improving yield by exploiting mechanisms underlying natural variation of photosynthesis

(2012) Tracy Lawson et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The dicotyledonous NAD malic enzyme C4plant Cleome gynandra displays age-dependent plasticity of C4decarboxylation biochemistry

(2012) M. Sommer et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

C4 eudicots are not younger than C4 monocots

(2011) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Evolution of the C4 photosynthetic mechanism: are there really three C4 acid decarboxylation types?

(2011) R. T. Furbank   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The C4 plant lineages of planet Earth

(2011) R. F. Sage et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Systems Analysis of a Maize Leaf Developmental Gradient Redefines the Current C4 Model and Provides Candidates for Regulation

(2011) T. R. Pick et al.   PLANT CELL

Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement

(2011) R. E. Blankenship et al.   SCIENCE

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

Use of reverse-phase liquid chromatography, linked to tandem mass spectrometry, to profile the Calvin cycle and other metabolic intermediates in Arabidopsis rosettes at different carbon dioxide concentrations

(2009) Stéphanie Arrivault et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

What is the maximum efficiency with which photosynthesis can convert solar energy into biomass?

(2008) Xin-Guang Zhu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Thioredoxin-mediated reversible dissociation of a stromal multiprotein complex in response to changes in light availability

(2008) T. P. Howard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oligocene CO2 Decline Promoted C4 Photosynthesis in Grasses

(2007) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY