The genesis of agricultural practice marks one of the most important events in human history. Low atmospheric CO2 has previously been shown to limit the productivity of the wild progenitors of C3 and C4 founder crops...
Tag - C3 photosynthesis
botanyone
C4 Wheat? Lend an ear to hear more
One of the Grand Challenges – and, arguably, the Holy Grail – of plant research at present is an attempt to improve the photosynthetic efficiency of plants. Somewhat surprisingly, the fundamental photosynthetic pathway...
Nigel Chaffey
Plant evolution: The inevitability of C4 photosynthesis
C4 photosynthesis may have evolved first to correct an intercellular nitrogen imbalance, and only later evolved a central role in carbon fixation.
AJ Cann
An explosive mix: C4, C3, C2 and CCM
How many more variants exist amongst the 325,000 species of flowering plants (let alone all the algae and other members of the plant kingdom)?
Scaring the crows…
One way of increasing crop productivity is to increase the amount of grain or other harvestable product that is actually harvested from the plant. To that end scarecrows were invented by human beings, although their...
Phytonumeracy
Echoing a plea from Ron Milo and Robert Last that computational methods [which is sort of ‘math(s)’…] should be used to gain deeper understanding of the fundamental principles that govern regulation of metabolic...
