Why is C4 photosynthesis so rare in trees?
Why is C4 photosynthesis so rare in trees?
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为什么树木中 C4 光合作用如此罕见?
DOI:
10.1093/jxb/eraa234
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
6.9
通讯作者:
Young SNR
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Young SNR
Since C4photosynthesis was first discovered >50 years ago, researchers have sought to understand how this complex trait evolved from the ancestral C3photosynthetic machinery on >60 occasions. Despite its repeated emergence across the plant kingdom, C4photosynthesis is notably rare in trees, with true C4trees only existing inEuphorbia. Here we consider aspects of the C4trait that could limit but not preclude the evolution of a C4tree, including reduced quantum yield, increased energetic demand, reduced adaptive plasticity, evolutionary constraints, and a new theory that the passive symplastic phloem loading mechanism observed in trees, combined with difficulties in maintaining sugar and water transport over a long pathlength, could make C4photosynthesis largely incompatible with the tree lifeform. We conclude that the transition to a tree habit within C4lineages as well as the emergence of C4photosynthesis within pre-existing trees would both face a series of challenges that together explain the global rarity of C4photosynthesis in trees. The C4trees inEuphorbiaare therefore exceptional in how they have circumvented every potential barrier to the rare C4tree lifeform.
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