Wide sampling of natural diversity identifies novel molecular signatures of C4 photosynthesis
Steven Kelly, Sarah Covshoff, Samart Wanchana, Vivek Thakur, W. Paul Quick, Yu Wang, Martha Ludwig, Richard Bruskiewich, Alisdair R. Fernie, Rowan F. Sage, Zhijian Tian, Zixian Yan, Jun Wang, Yong Zhang, Xin-Guang Zhu, , Julian M. Hibberd
The paper identifies novel molecular signatures of C4 photosynthesis by analyzing transcriptomes from eighteen independent origins of C4 plants, revealing shared and new metabolic pathways and gene expression responses to low CO2.
bioRxiv · Jul 13, 2017 · PreprintPlant Biology