Zhu Xinguang's research team discovered the potential metabolic mechanism of increasing global atmospheric CO2 concentration that inhibits photosynthetic nitrogen assimilation in C3 plants

On July 29, 2021, Zhu Xinguang's research team from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences integrated the research results of C ₃ photosynthesis, nitrogen assimilation and respiratory metabolism for more than half a century , and established the first C ₃ in the world.

Since the industrial revolution, the global atmospheric CO ₂ concentration has continued to rise

There is a close interaction between photosynthesis and nitrogen assimilation in plants

In this study, Zhu Xinguang's team constructed the world's first model of the kinetic mechanism of C ₃ photosynthetic elementary carbon and nitrogen metabolism

Research using this model found that if the current atmospheric CO ₂ concentration doubles to the level at the end of this century, the C ₃ photosynthetic nitrogen assimilation capacity will drop by about 10%

Zhu Xinguang's research group in the Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Environmental Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has graduated with Ph.

Original link: https://doi.