Hence, photorespiration is virtually absent in C4 leaves.

The light-dependent reactions and the Calvin cycle.

These structures are involved in plant processes such as photorespiration.

It's a little-known step in photosynthesis known as photorespiration.

Photosynthesis: What Happens During the Dark Phase & Photorespiration?

In plants, there are two types of respiration: dark respiration and photo respiration.

Estimates suggest that photorespiration can reduce the efficiency of photosynthesis by more than 40 percent.

In addition, the invention provides transgenic plants having an enhanced photorespiration, photosynthesis, growth or yield.

As the temperature rises, however, photorespiration becomes an increasing problem for C3 plants, and eventually the losses to photorespiration are so great that the C4 plant surpasses its C3 rival's efficiency.

This is the first time that an engineered photorespiration fix has been tested in real-world agronomic conditions.

According to the authors, photorespiration can reduce the photosynthetic efficiency of these so-called C3 crops by 20 to 50 per cent.

Photorespiration can reduce C3 crop photosynthetic efficiency by 20 to 50%.

Photorespiration losses have not been intolerable either; the selection pressure is probably not severe in most environments.

Under normal conditions photorespiration takes a complicated route through 3 compartments in the plant cell.

Photorespiration is a result of the reaction of Rubisco with O2 instead of CO2.