C3C4

Alec S Baird1,2,3, Samuel H Taylor4,5, Jessica Pasquet-Kok1

  • 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, 621 Charles E. Young Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.

The New phytologist
|January 6, 2025
PubMed
概括

草表现出矛盾的液压适应. 这项研究揭示了液压特征是C3和C4草成功的关键,影响光合作用和干旱适应,对于作物设计和生态预测至关重要.

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