Article: Studies from University of Tsukuba yield new data on plant physiology.(Report)

According to a study from Tsukuba, Japan, "The coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi (Haptophyta) is a representative and unique marine phytoplankton species that fixes inorganic carbon by photosynthesis and calci-fication. We examined the initial process of photosynthetic carbon assimilation by analyses of metabolites, enzymes and genes."

"When the cells were incubated with a radioactive substrate (2.3mM (NaHCO3)-C-14) for 10s under illumination, 70 of the C-14 was incorporated into the 80 methanol-soluble fraction. Eighty-five and 15 of C-14 in the soluble fraction was incorporated into phosphate esters (P-esters), including the C-3 cycle intermediates and a C-4 ...

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