Overexpression of cytoplasmic C4 Flaveria bidentis carbonic anhydrase in C3 Arabidopsis thaliana increases photosynthetic potential and Biomass
Deepika Kandoi1· Kamal Ruhil1·Govindjee Govindjee2,#·Baishnab C. Tripathy1, 3*
1School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
2Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, and Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
3Department of Biotechnology, Sharda University, Greater Noida 201306, UP, India
#Since 2019, Govindjee’s legal name is Govindjee Govindjee
*Corresponding author’s email is: baishnabtripathy@yahoo.com
Running title: Boosting photosynthesis by C4 carbonic anhydrase
Address for correspondence
Baishnab C. Tripathy
Department of Biotechnology, Sharda University, Greater Noida 201310, UP, India
This work was supported by the National Agriculture Innovation Project (grant number: PAC-SLS-BCT-NAIP-09080312-371 to BCT) from the Indian Council Agriculture Research (ICAR) and BSR Faculty Fellowship to BCT, and by the National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF-2017-000632) to DK from the Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India.