• Title of article

    Did early land plants use carbon-concentrating mechanisms?

  • Author/Authors

    Cowling، نويسنده , , Sharon A.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2013
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    120
  • To page
    124
  • Abstract
    Carbon-concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) in plants involve actively increasing CO2 concentrations near ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (RuBisCO). The assumption has been that terrestrial plants did not evolve CCMs for well over 300 million years, yet most marine plants probably evolved CCMs at the time when oxygenic photosynthesis first occurred in the Paleozoic. One primary reason for this assumption is that analysis of genetic mutations for phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPc; an enzyme required for C4 and CAM photosynthesis) indicate a molecular age of no more than 65 Ma. Could the evolutionary response of both RuBisCO and PEPc to varying concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and O2 over geological time have obscured the real time when land plants first used PEPc during photosynthesis?
  • Keywords
    carbon-concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) , PEpC , photosynthetic adaptations , early land plants , Evolution , atmospheric pO2:pCO2 ratio , RUBISCO
  • Journal title
    Trends in Plant Science
  • Serial Year
    2013
  • Journal title
    Trends in Plant Science
  • Record number

    2187629