C3 Versus C4 Photosynthesis Now and then, RuBP will affix itself to oxygen instead of carbon dioxide in a process known as photorespiration.

Credit: Utsman Media/Unsplash Some plants, like rice, wheat, and maize, can combat photorespiration through a photosynthesis variation known as C4 photosynthesis.

Those mistakes result in a compound that actually inhibits photosynthesis. Photorespiration, a kind of recycling process, gets rid of that compound — but photorespiration requires a lot of energy.

Photorespiration can cut the efficiency of fixing carbon by 40 percent, stunting the plants. Photosynthesis happens in two main stages, but only one requires light.

Scientists call this photorespiration. It happens when an enzyme crucial to the photosynthesis process, rubisco, mistakenly latches on to an oxygen molecule instead of carbon dioxide.

There he investigates the high-temperature strategies of photosynthesis and its mechanisms in forests. Preliminary findings of the research group have shown that the photorespiration temperature ...

Researchers had given up on achieving photosynthesis in animals, Professor Sachihiro Matsunaga told Newsweek, but that didn't stop him and his colleagues.

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As the planet warms and global population grows, a looming food crisis is spurring biochemists to reengineer one of the most common chemical processes on the planet: photosynthesis. These ...

Most plants utilize C3 photosynthesis, though, meaning they don't have built-in safeguards against photorespiration.