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Rubisco And Abiotic Stresses In Plants: Current Assessment, Abdulbaki Shehu Abdulbaki, Hameed Alsamadany, Yahya Alzahrani, Bolaji Umar Olayinka
Rubisco And Abiotic Stresses In Plants: Current Assessment, Abdulbaki Shehu Abdulbaki, Hameed Alsamadany, Yahya Alzahrani, Bolaji Umar Olayinka
Turkish Journal of Botany
Abiotic stresses are serious environmental factors militating against the production of many crops around the world. The consequence of this, is the difficulty of meeting the demands of the increasing world population. Aside from other negative effects, reduction in photosynthesis is an important feature of abiotic stresses. Abiotic stresses limit photosynthesis in a number of ways. The reduction in ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) content and activity is one of the paramount ways through which abiotic stresses affect photosynthesis. Rubisco is the CO2 fixing enzyme of photosynthesis and also catalyses the photo-respiratory carbon oxidation. The enzyme has low turnover and …