Advances in understanding the cyanobacterial CO2- concentrating-mechanism (CCM): functional components, Ci transporters, diversity, genetic regulation and prospects for engineering into plants

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2008

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Price, Graeme (Dean)
Badger, Murray
Woodger, Fiona
Long, Benedict

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Oxford University Press

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Cyanobacteria have evolved a significant environmental adaptation, known as a CO2-concentrating-mechanism (CCM), that vastly improves photosynthetic performance and survival under limiting CO2 concentrations. The CCM functions to transport and accumulate

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Keywords: carbon; carbon dioxide; conference paper; Cyanobacterium; gene expression regulation; genetic engineering; genetics; metabolism; physiology; plant; Carbon; Carbon Dioxide; Cyanobacteria; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; Genetic Engineering; Plants; Carboxysomes; CO2- responsive genes; CO2-concentrating-mechanism; CO2-uptake systems; Cyanobacteria; Genetic regulation; HCO 3 - transporters; Photosynthesis

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/58303

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ANU Research Publications

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Journal of Experimental Botany

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10.1093/jxb/erm112

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2037-12-31

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