Tracing the photosynthetic carbon cycle

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Bassham, Benson and colleagues traced radioactive carbon through photosynthetic intermediates to explain regeneration of the carbon-dioxide acceptor in a cyclic pathway.

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This entry binds one six-author paper and its earlier laboratory report. It does not attribute all photosynthesis research to Calvin alone or equate pathway identification with later crop-yield improvements.

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J. A. Bassham; A. A. Benson; Lorel D. Kay; Anne Z. Harris; A. T. Wilson; M. Calvin

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