Why is Rubisco from red algae better at CO2-fixation than Rubisco from crop plants?
This project explores the catalytic and sequence variability of algae Rubisco to try and understand how these isoforms of Rubisco naturally have the greatest CO2-fixation capacity in chloroplasts.
Partnerships
This work will be undertaken in Research Program 1 of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis.