| As a result, certain plants in warm climates have evolved a different mechanism, called C4 photosynthesis, in which other enzymes help to concentrate CO2 around the rubisco, and the initial result is a four-carbon sugar. |
| Rubisco must be activated to catalyse the carboxylation and oxygenation reactions. |
| This is the process plants use to convert carbon dioxide into organic materials, using a catalyst called rubisco. |
| Limited evidence has been presented that elevated CO2 inhibits the transcription of genes coding for carbonic anhydrase and Rubisco activase. |
| If rubisco could be persuaded not to catalyse photorespiration, plants would grow more vigorously. There are three ways to do that. |
| A second way is to tinker with the proteins that influence rubisco, such as rubisco activase, which has produced promising results in tobacco plants. |
