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A welcome diversion from photorespiration

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Suppressing conventional photorespiration in Arabidopsis thaliana increases biomass.

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Figure 1: A simplified, nonstoichiometric representation of the normal photorespiratory pathway of C3 plants in relation to a chloroplastic bypass for catabolism of glycolate to glycerate.

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  1. Richard C. Leegood is at the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK. r.leegood@sheffield.ac.uk,

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Leegood, R. A welcome diversion from photorespiration. Nat Biotechnol 25, 539–540 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0507-539

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