“…Among the species of Brassicaceae in which C 4 species have not yet been found, other C 3 -C 4 intermediate species have also been found within the genera Moricandia, Diplotaxis and Brassica (Apel et al, 1997). M. ar vensis, which was the first-reported C 3 -C 4 intermediate species in the Brassicaceae (Apel et al, 1978;Holaday et al, 1981), has attracted the attention of breeders because its traits can be introgressed into cultivated crops to improve their photosynthetic efficiency (Apel et al, 1984;Toriyama et al, 1987;Takahata, 1990;Takahata and Takeda, 1990;Kirti et al, 1992;Takahata et al, 1993;Razmjoo et al, 1996;Bang et al, 1996Bang et al, , 2002Bang et al, , 2007Ishikawa et al, 2003).…”