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    In botany, C4 carbon fixation is one of three known methods of photosynthesis used by plants. C4 plants increase their photosynthetic efficiency by reducing...
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    C4 carbon fixation or the Hatch–Slack pathway is one of three known photosynthetic processes of carbon fixation in plants. It owes the names to the 1960s...
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    "Photorespiration in C3 and C4 Plant Tissue Cultures". Plant Physiology. 58 (4): 573–575. doi:10.1104/pp.58.4.573. PMC 543284. PMID 16659720. C4 plant biology. Sage...
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  • Look up C4 or c4 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. C4, C04, C.IV, C-4, or C-04 may refer to: Caldwell 4 or NGC 7023 or Iris Nebula, a reflection nebula...
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  • organic material. A C4 plant prefaces the Calvin cycle with reactions that incorporate CO2 into four-carbon compounds. A CAM plant uses crassulacean acid...
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    C3 carbon fixation (redirect from C3 plant)
    The C3 plants, originating during Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras, predate the C4 plants and still represent approximately 95% of Earth's plant biomass,...
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    Citroën C4 and the Peugeot 307. Both the C4 Picasso and Grand C4 Picasso are produced at the PSA Vigo Plant in Spain. The first generation Grand C4 Picasso...
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    happen. In most vascular plant chloroplasts, the thylakoids are arranged in stacks called grana, though in certain C4 plant chloroplasts and some algal...
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    the leaf. C4 plants can produce more sugar than C3 plants in conditions of high light and temperature. Many important crop plants are C4 plants, including...
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  • fibrous material (bagasse) left over from pressing. C3 plants use the Calvin cycle to fix carbon. C4 plants use a modified Calvin cycle in which they separate...
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    Millet (category Plant common names)
    Instead of letting the plant reach maturity, it can be grazed by stock and is commonly used for sheep and cattle. Millet is a C4 plant, which means that it...
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  • of C3, C4, and CAM plants in regulating the influx of carbon dioxide to the Calvin-Benson Cycle in relation to their abiotic stressors. C3 plants have no...
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    The Citroën C4 is a car produced by Citroën, part of Stellantis. It was positioned to be the successor to the Citroën Xsara. The first generation production...
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    transpiration - a high cost avoided by plants able to employ CAM.[What percentage is lost in CAM plants?] The C4 pathway bears resemblance to CAM; both...
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    colder and/or wetter climates, increased seasonality, and decline in C4 plant abundance. Intensified winter and summer monsoon strength is also cited...
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    dying within about a year if it fails to germinate. The species is a C4 plant, specifically of the NADP-ME type. It develops herbicide resistance unusually...
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    Many instances of convergent evolution are known in plants, including the repeated development of C4 photosynthesis, seed dispersal by fleshy fruits adapted...
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    wetter summers, which contributed to an increase in the abundance of C4 plants across the region. In the Loess Plateau, δ13C values of occluded organic...
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    C4 plants on a global scale. While C4 enhances the efficiency of RuBisCO, the concentration of carbon is highly energy intensive. This means that C4 plants...
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    The Chevrolet Corvette (C4) is the fourth generation of the Corvette sports car, produced by American automobile manufacturer Chevrolet from 1983 until...
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    C-4 (explosive) (redirect from C4 explosive)
    Brian. "Grosse Point Blank Microwave C4 Mercury Switch". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 14 July 2014. "C4 product page". Ribbands Explosives. Archived...
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    Botany (redirect from Plant biology)
    called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist...
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    a supercharged photosynthetic mechanism, C4 carbon fixation. Converting rice from a C3 plant into a C4 plant would be beneficial because the latter can...
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    RuBisCO (section C4)
    50% of soluble leaf protein in C3 plants (20–30% of total leaf nitrogen) and 30% of soluble leaf protein in C4 plants (5–9% of total leaf nitrogen). Given...
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    Sugarcane (category Plant common names)
    It is one of the most efficient photosynthesizers in the plant kingdom. It is a C4 plant, able to convert up to 1% of incident solar energy into biomass...
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    and C4 plants. Sodium can potentially replace potassium's regulation of stomatal opening and closing. Essentiality of sodium: Essential for C4 plants rather...
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    is confined to the chloroplasts of these bundle sheath cells in C4 plants. C2 plants also use a variation of this structure. Sage, Rowan F.; Khoshravesh...
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    Poaceae (category Plant life-forms)
    environments. The C3 grasses are referred to as "cool-season" grasses, while the C4 plants are considered "warm-season" grasses.: 18–19  Annual cool-season – wheat...
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    of C4 plants (particularly the Poaceae) related to global cooling in the late Miocene, since extant pikas reveal a strong preference for C3 plants (Asteraceae...
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    increased seasonality and expansion of C4 grasses, as isotopic evidence suggests that the uptake of C4 plants was far less than that in contemporary horses...
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