That Rubisco-oxygen interaction, which happens about 20 percent of the time, generates the toxic compound glycolate, which a plant must recycle into useful molecules through photorespiration.

28.05.2021 14:00 Turning problems into opportunities: photorespiration for improved plant metabolism. Dr.rer.nat. Arne Claussen Stabsstelle Presse und Kommunikation Heinrich-Heine-Universität ...

The paper, by Paul South at United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service in Urbana, IL, and colleagues was titled, "Synthetic glycolate metabolism pathways stimulate crop ...

Key to their discovery is a process called photorespiration, a troublesome feature of plant photosynthesis. Photorespiration occurs when Rubisco, a key enzyme in photosynthesis, reacts with oxygen ...

The paper "Bile acid sodium symporter BASS6 can transport glycolate and is involved in photorespiratory metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana" is published by Plant Cell (DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00775).

This misstep is called photorespiration. Plants use a tremendous amount of precious energy to correct it. In fact, photorespiration reduces crop yields by an estimated 20 to 50%.

New research has uncovered genetic modifications, altering the photorespiration pathway, that could improve crop yields by 40%. New research conducted at the University of Illinois (IL, USA) and led ...

Photorespiration occurs when Rubisco reacts with an oxygen molecule rather than CO 2, which occurs around 25% of the time under ideal conditions but more frequently in high temperatures.

Climate-ready crop Increase in food mass through photorespiratory bypass in elevated temperatures Date: December 4, 2024 Source: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois ...