C3 origins of the C4 pathway regulatory enzyme, PPDK-RP

Authors

C. J. Chastain, Minnesota State University–Moorhead
Gautam Sarath, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Raymond Chollet, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2001

Comments

Published in Photosynthesis Research 69:1-3 (July, 2001), p. 150. Copyright © Elsevier B.V. Used by permission.

Abstract

A current view of C₄ and CAM evolution holds that all of the constituent enzymes of the C₄ pathway preexisted in C₃ plants, albeit functioning in nonphotosynthetic capacities.