/ Rubisco Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en /curiosity/news/study-finds-missing-link-evolutionary-history-carbon-fixing-protein-rubisco <p>A team led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, has discovered a missing link in the evolution of photosynthesis and carbon fixation. Dating back more than 2.4 billion years, a newly discovered form of the plant enzyme rubisco could give new insight into plant evolution and breeding.</p> <p>Rubisco is the most abundant enzyme on the planet. Present in plants, cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae) and other photosynthetic organisms, it’s central to the process of carbon fixation and is one of Earth’s oldest carbon-fixing enzymes.</p> August 31, 2020 - 10:49am Andy Fell /curiosity/news/study-finds-missing-link-evolutionary-history-carbon-fixing-protein-rubisco