AmiGO 2: Term Details for "C4 photosynthesis" (GO:0009760)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0009760
Name: C4 photosynthesis
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The combination of atmospheric CO2 with a 3-carbon molecule phosphoenol pyruvate (PEP) in the mesophyll cells to make a 4-carbon acid which is immediately converted to malic acid. The malic acid is then passed across to the bundle sheath cells where it is broken down again to pyruvic acid and CO2. The acid is passed back to the mesophyll cells to be used again, while the CO2 is fed into the reductive pentose-phosphate cycle (Calvin cycle) and converted into sugar and starch. Source: ISBN:0816017360
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0009760 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to C4 photosynthesis (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to C4 photosynthesis (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for C4 photosynthesis (excluding "regulates").

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GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0008152 metabolic process
GO:0009058 biosynthetic process
GO:0009987 cellular process
GO:0071704 organic substance metabolic process
GO:0044238 primary metabolic process
GO:0005975 carbohydrate metabolic process
GO:0044237 cellular metabolic process
GO:1901576 organic substance biosynthetic process
GO:0016051 carbohydrate biosynthetic process
GO:0015979 photosynthesis
GO:0015977 carbon fixation
GO:0019685 photosynthesis, dark reaction
GO:0009760 C4 photosynthesis
GO:0009763 NAD-malic enzyme C4 photosynthesis
GO:0009762 NADP-malic enzyme C4 photosynthesis
GO:0009764 PEP carboxykinase C4 photosynthesis

Parents of C4 photosynthesis (GO:0009760)

subject	relation	object
C4 photosynthesis	is_a	carbon fixation (GO:0015977)
C4 photosynthesis	is_a	photosynthesis, dark reaction (GO:0019685)
C4 photosynthesis	RO:0002162	Viridiplantae (NCBITaxon:33090)

Children of C4 photosynthesis (GO:0009760)

subject	relation	object
NAD-malic enzyme C4 photosynthesis (GO:0009763)	is_a	C4 photosynthesis
PEP carboxykinase C4 photosynthesis (GO:0009764)	is_a	C4 photosynthesis
NADP-malic enzyme C4 photosynthesis (GO:0009762)	is_a	C4 photosynthesis

Wikipedia: C4_carbon_fixation