A team from the University of Illinois has measured the dynamic leakiness of CO2 from C4 plants. Previous studies had measured the leakiness under steady-state conditions, but this group took the measurements to prove that leakiness can and should be measured as a dynamic parameter.
October 11, 2022
A team from the University of Illinois has measured the dynamic leakiness of CO2 from C4 plants. Previous studies had measured the leakiness under steady-state conditions, but this group took the measurements to prove that leakiness can and should be measured as a dynamic parameter.
«Last year, we predicted that during photosynthetic induction, C4 cycle activation is faster than the Calvin-Benson cycle, which would cause more CO2 leaking, but we didn’t have any evidence,» said Yu Wang, a postdoctoral researcher at Illinois, who led this work for a research project called Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE). «Now our results prove it’s real. We have the first measurements of the leakiness under dynamic conditions.
