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Do you have more info on that 4% efficient system used in maize? First I’ve heard of it and it sounds interesting.
by jjcm 4y ago
Do you have more info on that 4% efficient system used in maize? First I’ve heard of it and it sounds interesting.
- maxerickson 4y agoIt's the C4 pathway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carbon_fixation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carbon_fixation
- moloch-hai 4y agoIt is common in grass families, notably excepting rice, but is also used in amaranth and in the various cabbage relatives. They are hoping to engineer a rice strain to use it. Hopefully it would also produce carotenes...