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Photorespiration: Comparison Between C3 and C4 Plants

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Photosynthesis II

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology ((PLANT,volume 6))

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The “nightmare” of “photorespiration” that Rabinowitch (1945) mentioned has now become reality, but it is now even more appropriate to say that “the relation between photosynthesis and respiration ... has become even less clear and the data even more controversial” (Rabinowitch, 1956).

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Canvin, D.T. (1979). Photorespiration: Comparison Between C3 and C4 Plants. In: Gibbs, M., Latzko, E. (eds) Photosynthesis II. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67242-2_29

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