Photosynthesis and growth of tobacco with a substituted bacterial Rubisco mirror the properties of the introduced enzyme

Whitney, Spencer; Andrews, Thomas

Photosynthesis and growth of tobacco with a substituted bacterial Rubisco mirror the properties of the introduced enzyme

Date

2003

Authors

Whitney, Spencer

Andrews, Thomas

Publisher

American Society of Plant Biologists

Abstract

Complete replacement, by biolistic plastid transformation, of the hexadecameric ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) with the dimeric version from the bacterium, Rhodospirillum rubrum, resulted in fully