Four autotrophic carbon-fixation pathways were already known and ... which is present in plants, algae, cyanobacteria and proteobacteria. A second autotrophic pathway (Arnon–Buchanan cycle ...

The plant provides sugars from photosynthesis that are utilized by the nitrogen-fixing microorganism for the energy it needs for nitrogen fixation. In exchange for these carbon sources ...

The discovery of how a critical enzyme "hidden in nature's blueprint" works sheds new light on how cells control key processes in carbon fixation ... "Unlike plants, cyanobacteria have a system ...

The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change. C3 and C4 plants respond differently to changing carbon dioxide ...

are working to "fix" photorespiration by engineering new carbon fixation roadmaps. This would reportedly make C3 plants 40% ...