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SUBMITTER: Juric I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5853773 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jurić Ivan I González-Pérez Vinicio V Hibberd Julian M JM Edwards Gerald G Burroughs Nigel J NJ
Journal of experimental botany 20161012 2
Bienertia cycloptera belongs to a diverse set of plants, recently discovered to perform C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis within individual mesophyll cells. How these plants accomplish high photosynthetic efficiency without adopting Kranz anatomy remains unanswered. By modelling the processes of diffusion, capture, and release of carbon dioxide and oxygen inside a typical Bienertia mesophyll cell geometry, we show that a spatial separation as low as 10 μm between the primary and the secondary carboxy ...[more]