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| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD v1.1d1 20130915//EN" "JATS-archivearticle1.dtd"><article article-type="article-commentary" dtd-version="1.1d1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">elife</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="hwp">eLife</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">eLife</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>eLife</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic">2050-084X</issn><publisher><publisher-name>eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">03702</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.03702</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="display-channel"><subject>Insight</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Genomics and evolutionary biology</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Plant biology</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="sub-display-channel"><subject>Plant evolution</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The inevitability of C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes" id="author-11650"><name><surname>Edwards</surname><given-names>Erika J</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"/><x> is at </x><aff id="aff1"><institution>Brown University</institution>, <addr-line><named-content content-type="city">Providence</named-content></addr-line>, <country>United States</country> <email>erika_edwards@brown.edu</email></aff></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic"><day>22</day><month>07</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>3</volume><elocation-id>e03702</elocation-id><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2014, Edwards</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Edwards</copyright-holder><license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This article is distributed under the terms of the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link>, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="elife03702.pdf"/><related-article ext-link-type="doi" id="ra1" related-article-type="commentary-article" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.02478"/><abstract><p>Elements of C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis—a complex adaptation that increases photosynthetic efficiency—may have evolved first to correct an intercellular nitrogen imbalance, and only later evolved a central role in carbon fixation.</p></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author-keywords"><title>Author keywords</title><kwd>Flaveria</kwd><kwd>C4 photosynthesis</kwd><kwd>evolution</kwd><kwd>plant evolution</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group kwd-group-type="research-organism"><title>Research organism</title><kwd>other</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><boxed-text><p><bold>Related research article</bold> Mallmann J, Heckmann D, Bräutigam A, Lercher MJ, Weber APM, Westhoff P, Gowik U. 2014. The role of photorespiration during the evolution of C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis in the genus <italic>Flaveria</italic>. <italic>eLife</italic> <bold>3</bold>:e02478. doi: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02478">10.7554/eLife.02478</ext-link></p><p><bold>Image</bold> C<sub>4</sub> plants (Fb and Ft) have higher levels of certain enzymes than plants that use other forms of photosynthesis</p><p><inline-graphic xlink:href="elife03702inf001"/></p></boxed-text><p>Understanding the evolution of complex innovations remains one of the most challenging problems in biology (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib8">Lynch, 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib15">Wagner, 2014</xref>). Insights often stem from experimental lab studies that manipulate systems under 'directed evolution' (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib16">Weinreich et al., 2006</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib1">Blount et al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib4">Finnigan et al., 2012</xref>). However, complex traits that have evolved many times over in independent lineages present a different—yet equally powerful—opportunity to infer the evolutionary trajectories of novel traits.</p><p>In flowering plants, C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis is a well-studied, complex adaptation that has independently evolved over 60 times (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib11">Sage et al., 2011</xref>). Many key, shared stages along the C<sub>4</sub> evolutionary trajectory have been identified by studying multiple C<sub>4</sub>-evolving plant groups (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib6">Kennedy et al., 1980</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib7">Ku et al., 1983</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib14">Vogan et al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib17">Williams et al., 2013</xref>). Now, in <italic>eLife</italic>, Udo Gowik and colleagues at Heinrich-Heine-Universität—including Julia Mallmann and David Heckmann as joint first authors—present a compelling new hypothesis for how the final evolutionary steps were realized (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib9">Mallmann et al., 2014</xref>).</p><p>Although atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) levels are currently rising, the last 30 million years witnessed great declines in CO<sub>2</sub>, which has limited the efficiency of photosynthesis. Rubisco, the critical photosynthetic enzyme that catalyses the fixation of CO<sub>2</sub> into carbohydrate, also reacts with oxygen when CO<sub>2</sub> levels are low and temperatures are high. When this occurs, plants activate a process known as photorespiration, an energetically expensive set of reactions that—importantly for this story—release one molecule of CO<sub>2</sub>.</p><p>C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis is a clever solution to the problem of low atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>. It is an internal plant carbon-concentrating mechanism that largely eliminates photorespiration: a 'fuel-injection' system for the photosynthetic engine. C<sub>4</sub> plants differ from plants with the more typical 'C<sub>3</sub>' photosynthesis because they restrict Rubisco activity to an inner compartment, typically the bundle sheath, with atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> being fixed into a 4-carbon acid in the outer mesophyll. This molecule then travels to the bundle sheath, where it is broken down again, bathing Rubisco in CO<sub>2</sub> and limiting the costly process of photorespiration.</p><p>The evolution of the C<sub>4</sub> pathway requires many changes. These include the recruitment of multiple enzymes into new biochemical functions, massive shifts in the spatial distribution of proteins and organelles, and a set of anatomical modifications to cell size and structure. It is complex, and it is also highly effective: C<sub>4</sub> plants include many of our most important and productive crops (maize, sorghum, sugarcane, millet) and are responsible for around 25% of global terrestrial photosynthesis (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib13">Still et al., 2003</xref>).</p><p>A key intermediate step in the evolution of C<sub>4</sub> is the establishment of a rudimentary carbon-concentrating mechanism. Termed 'C<sub>2</sub> photosynthesis', this mechanism limits certain reactions of the photorespiratory cycle to the bundle sheath cells. A byproduct of these reactions is CO<sub>2</sub>, creating a slightly elevated CO<sub>2</sub> concentration and increasing Rubisco efficiency in these cells. Though much rarer than C<sub>4</sub> plants, C<sub>2</sub> plants have been discovered in a variety of C<sub>4</sub>-evolving lineages, and are thought to represent a common, if not requisite, intermediate step along the C<sub>4</sub> trajectory (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib12">Sage et al., 2012</xref>).</p><p>One implication of a restricted photorespiratory cycle is the development of a severe nitrogen imbalance between the mesophyll and the bundle sheath cells. This occurs because every molecule of CO<sub>2</sub> produced in the bundle sheath is accompanied by a molecule of ammonia. While this nitrogen imbalance has previously been recognised (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib10">Monson and Rawsthorne, 2000</xref>), it has never been closely studied, and certainly never considered as potentially important to the evolutionary assembly of the C<sub>4</sub> pathway.</p><p>To investigate this, Mallmann, Heckmann et al. combined a mechanistic model of C<sub>2</sub> physiological function with a metabolic model, which allowed them to predict the buildup of certain metabolites based on the rates of Rubisco and photorespiratory activity. They then modelled the various biochemical pathways that could potentially be induced to balance metabolic fluxes between the mesophyll and bundle sheath cells. This creative combination of models allowed them to evaluate the various metabolic pathways for re-balancing nitrogen in terms of which pathways resulted in the highest biomass yield (a proxy for fitness).</p><p>Remarkably, when low levels of C<sub>4</sub> enzyme activity are permitted in the model, key elements of the C<sub>4</sub> cycle are favoured as the nitrogen-balancing pathway. What's more, this model predicts that with a C<sub>4</sub> cycle established, increasing the activity of the enzymes results in a linear increase in biomass yield. Allowing for low levels of C<sub>4</sub> enzyme activity is biologically reasonable, as these enzymes are routinely present in C<sub>3</sub> leaves. Mallmann, Heckmann et al. support their model predictions with experimental gene expression data from a set of C<sub>3</sub>, C<sub>2</sub>, C<sub>4</sub>, and other C<sub>3</sub>-C<sub>4</sub> intermediate types in the plant lineage <italic>Flaveria</italic>, which show elevated C<sub>4</sub> cycle activity even in intermediates that are not using the enzymes to capture carbon.</p><p>In other words, once a C<sub>2</sub> cycle is established, the evolution of a fully realized C<sub>4</sub> process is fairly trivial. Once C<sub>4</sub> enzymes are recruited to shuttle nitrogen back to the mesophyll, it is all but inevitable. This can explain in part why C<sub>4</sub> has evolved such a startling number of times, and why many of these origins are highly clustered across the tree of life. Many C<sub>4</sub> evolutionary clusters likely share an ancestor that had already acquired an elevated likelihood of evolving the pathway (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>).<fig id="fig1" position="float"><label>Figure 1.</label><caption><title>An 'Evolvability Landscape' for C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis.</title><p>Many intermediate stages along the evolutionary trajectory from C<sub>3</sub> to C<sub>4</sub> are well known (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib12">Sage et al., 2012</xref>). These can be displayed as part of an adaptive fitness landscape, which links biological properties (horizontal axis) with the fitness they produce (right vertical axis; a greater height indicates a greater fitness). The adaptive fitness landscape of the C<sub>4</sub> trajectory was recently modelled as 'Mt. Fuji-like': a steep linear incline with each step along the trajectory bringing small, incremental increases in fitness (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib5">Heckmann et al., 2013</xref>), represented here by the grey dashed line. The gains in relative likelihood of evolving C<sub>4</sub>, or the 'evolutionary accessibility' of the pathway, may not be so linear (left vertical axis; black line). In spite of some limited flexibility in the order of trait acquisition (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib17">Williams et al., 2013</xref>), two intermediate stages are relatively fixed in position along the trajectory and also provide steep increases in C<sub>4</sub> evolvability. One early step, an elevated ratio of bundle sheath: mesophyll cross-sectional area (BS:M ratio) was recently identified as a key trait that preceded multiple parallel realizations of C<sub>4</sub> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib2">Christin et al., 2013</xref>). Mallman et al. propose a mechanistic interaction between C<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis, suggesting that evolution of the C<sub>2</sub> stage of the trajectory greatly increases the probability that full C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis will quickly follow.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife03702f001"/></fig></p><p>This may also explain why C<sub>2</sub> species are so rare relative to C<sub>4</sub> species—C<sub>2</sub> is likely to be a step along the trajectory with a relatively short evolutionary lifespan. At the same time, it raises the question of why a handful of C<sub>2</sub> species are persistent—the C<sub>2</sub> <italic>Mollugo verticillata</italic> group may be up to 15 million years old (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib3">Christin et al., 2011</xref>). A testable hypothesis would be that these C<sub>2</sub> plants have solved their nitrogen problem a different way, thereby limiting their own evolutionary accessibility to C<sub>4</sub> photosynthesis. 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