New research has revealed that plants make their own ‘secret’ decisions about how much carbon to release back into the atmosphere via a previously unknown process, a discovery with “profound implications” for the use of plants as carbon stores. The study was conducted by researchers from the Univers
Professor Harvey Millar, from UWA’s School of Molecular Sciences and an author of the study published on June 9 in, said the findings mean plants of the future could be designed to meet the world’s food needs while also aiding the environment., the process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar,” said Professor Millar, who is also Director at the ARC Center of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology.
“Our research, led by PhD candidate and Forrest Scholar Xuyen Le, discovered this CO2 release decision is governed by a previously unknown process, a metabolic channel that directs a product of sugar called pyruvate to be oxidized to CO2 or kept to make plant biomass,” Professor Millar said. “Understanding the plant’s respiration secret to use a metabolic channel to prioritize carbon release over keeping it to make biomass provides a new opportunity to influence the decision at the last moment,” he said.
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