Synthetic pathway for biological carbon dioxide sequestration

A method for increasing carbon fixation and/or increasing biomass production in a plant, comprising:

• introducing into a plant, plant part, and/or plant cell a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a succinyl CoA synthetase polypeptide, a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a 2-oxoglutarate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase polypeptide, a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a 2-oxoglutarate carboxylase polypeptide, a heterologous polynucleotide encoding an oxalosuccinate reductase polypeptide, and/or a heterologous polynucleotide encoding an isocitrate lyase polypeptide to produce a stably transformed plant, plant part, and/or plant cell, wherein the heterologous polynucleotide encoding a succinyl CoA synthetase polypeptide, the heterologous polynucleotide encoding a 2-oxoglutarate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase polypeptide, the heterologous polynucleotide encoding a 2-oxoglutarate carboxylase polypeptide, the heterologous polynucleotide encoding an oxalosuccinate reductase polypeptide, and the heterologous polynucleotide encoding an isocitrate lyase polypeptide are from a bacterial and/or an archaeal species.