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Clusia genomes shed light on the evolution and diversity of crassulacean acid metabolism physiotypes

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By Hannes Kramml, Johannes Herpell, Clara Priemer, Florian Schindler, Andreas Berger, Maximilian Kellner, Stefan Plott, Tamara Schmidt, Leila Afjehi-Sadat, Palak Chaturvedi, Arindam Ghatak, Martin Brenner, Iro Pierides, Fabio Trevisan, Oleg Simakov, Werner Huber, Ovidiu Paun, Susann Wicke, Gert Bachmann, Wolfram Weckwerth, Zoe Wessely, Ágnes Dohovits, Peter Kerpan, Lena Fragner, Eva M. Temsch, Menriti Ibrahim, Felix Fromwald, Anke Bellaire, Ulrich Lüttge, Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss
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Abstract More than 200 years ago, Alexander von Humboldt described a tree of the genus Clusia for its ability to perform crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM). This drought-adaptive metabolism allows plants to maintain photosynthesis under water limitation by temporally separating CO₂ uptake and fixation. The diversity of CAM physiotypes has fueled a debate about evolutionary constraints and the feasibility of engineering CAM into C₃ crops.
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