Photosynthesis in C3-C4 intermediate Moricandia species.

ABSTRACT: Evolution of C₄ photosynthesis is not distributed evenly in the plant kingdom. Particularly interesting is the situation in the Brassicaceae, because the family contains no C₄ species, but several C₃-C₄ intermediates, mainly in the genus Moricandia Investigation of leaf anatomy, gas exchange parameters, the metabolome, and the transcriptome of two C₃-C₄ intermediate Moricandia species, M. arvensis and M. suffruticosa, and their close C₃ relative M. moricandioides enabled us to unravel the specific C₃-C₄ characteristics in these Moricandia lines. Reduced CO₂ compensation points in these lines were accompanied by anatomical adjustments, such as centripetal concentration of organelles

SUBMITTER: Schluter U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5853546 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature