C3

adjective

1. in poor health or having a poor physique
2. informal.
   inferior; worthless

Example Sentences

While plants like rice continued using an old form of photosynthesis known as C3, others like corn and sorghum developed a newer and more efficient version called C4.

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However, the vast majority of plants still run on C3 photosynthesis.

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So how did C4 plants come to be, and could C3 plants ever get a similar update?

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Around 95% of plants use C3 photosynthesis, in which mesophyll cells -- green spongy cells that live inside leaves -- turn light, water, and carbon dioxide into plant-powering sugars.

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"Asking what makes C3 and C4 plants different is not just important from the basic biological perspective of wanting to know why something evolved and how it functions on the molecular level," says Professor Joseph Ecker, senior author of the study, Salk International Council Chair in Genetics, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

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