Hornworts are a small group of plants exclusively characterized by asynchronous sporogenesis and a sporangium that grows from its base. Among the most widely used and reliable features that delineate ...

Biomolecular condensates that persist through cell division must be reorganized and inherited, yet it remains unclear whether subtle defects before division are associated with later organelle or grow...

Abstract. Zygnematophytes emerged as the unexpected closest algal relatives of land plants despite their simple body plans, raising questions about the mor

Abstract. Oxygenic phototrophs fix CO2 via the enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO), which shows relatively low CO2 affinity an

The algal CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM) elevates CO2 around Rubisco, the CO2-fixing enzyme, through the coordinated action of inorganic carbon (Ci) uptak...

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Element for Pyrenoid Organization of Starch 1 (EPOS1) is required for normal starch sheath formation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are a diverse and widespread class of self-assembling protein-based organelles consisting of a semipermeable protein shell encapsulating an enzymatic core. Isolated ...

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Rubisco has inherently low catalytic efficiency limiting crop productivity. Here the authors show that chloroplast genome editing can be used to generate substitutions in Arabidopsis rbcL that increas...

Life on Earth depends on photosynthetic CO2 fixation via the Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle to form organic carbon. This process evolved first in cyanobacteria and was later conveyed to eukaryotes, givi...

Nuclear transgene expression in Chlamydomonas is frequently limited by gene silencing. Xing et al. show that intron-containing 5′ UTR regulatory elements can reduce nuclear gene silencing via epigenet...

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Most algae enhance their CO2 assimilation by concentrating CO2 within the pyrenoid, a biomolecular condensate of the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco. Man...

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Abstract. This update discusses the physiological roles of carbonic anhydrase (CA) in plants and algae. It examines some new observations about the functio

Pyrenoids are eukaryotic CO2-fixing organelles that are evolutionarily diverse, globally abundant, and critical to global carbon cycling. Despite being described over 200 years ago, the vast majority ...

He et al. identify a central regulator of condensate size and dynamics in the Chlamydomonas CO2-fixing condensate, the pyrenoid. KEY1 phosphorylates EPYC1, a linker protein for Rubisco, to maintain py...

In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...

Use the OpenPlant toolkit for genetic engineering of the plant synthetic biology model Marchantia polymorpha.