Photorespiration is known to be involved in carbon flux in plants, enabling the carbon lost during RuBisCO oxygenation to be recovered. We show that NPF8.4 is a transporter responsible for sequestering the photorespiratory carbon intermediate glycerate into vacuoles during nitrogen depletion, elucidating a novel function for photorespiration in nitrogen flux.
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This is a summary of: Lin, Y.-C. & Tsay, Y.-F. Study of vacuole glycerate transporter NPF8.4 reveals a new role of photorespiration in C/N balance. Nat. Plants https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01392-2 (2023).
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The glycerate transporter NPF8.4 links photorespiration and nitrogen flux in plants. Nat. Plants 9, 693–694 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01399-9
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