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Overcoming adversity through diversity: aquatic carbon concentrating mechanisms.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Meyer, Moritz T 
Rickaby, Rosalind EM 

Abstract

Carbon concentrating mechanism (CCM) systems, asso- ciated with evolutionarily diverse aquatic photosynthetic organisms, make a major contribution to global net primary productivity and marine carbon sequestration. Here, an overview of these global contributions is pre- sented from their evolutionary origins, including a pos- sible trigger for their diversi cation when the aqueous O2/CO2 ratio rose above parity, and a re-de nition of the paradox of phytoplankton. The reviews and research in the special issue also include molecular physiology and ecology of CCMs, through to future potential applications for sustaining carbon sequestration and supporting ter- restrial crop productivity.

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Keywords

Carbon-concentrating mechanism (CCM), convergent evolution, inorganic carbon accumulation, macrophytes, marine and freshwater, phytoplankton, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Marine Biology, Oxygen, Photosynthesis, Phytoplankton, Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase

Journal Title

J Exp Bot

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Journal ISSN

0022-0957
1460-2431

Volume Title

68

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)