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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 9, Pages 952-956Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg113
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gas exchange (leaf); N-use efficiency; Oryza saliva L.; protein allocation; ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase Zea mays L.
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The N-use efficiency for photosynthesis was higher in a C-4 Plant, maize, than in a C-3 plant, rice, including rbcS antisense rice with optimal ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (Rubisco) content for CO2-saturated photosynthesis, even when photosynthesis was measured under saturating CO2 conditions. The N cost for the C-4 cycle enzymes in maize was not large, and the lower amount of Rubisco allowed a greater N investment in the thylakoid components. This greater content of the thylakoid components as well as the CO2 concentrating mechanism may support higher N-use efficiency for photosynthesis in maize.
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