The discovery in tobacco and celery of components of the C4 type of photosynthesis presents a host of intriguing questions about when and how this pathway evolved in higher plants.
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Raven, J. Evolutionary options. Nature 415, 375–377 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/415375a
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