PHOTORESPIRATION, PHOTOSYNTHESIS AT A GLANCE

NOTES & RESEARCH


No idea about who made  these following statements; but, I'am still gathering data about light, its nature and how it become itself  immersed in the big picture revolving about the so-called  oxygen revolution and its subsequent outcome. This author affirms :
Some plants carbon dioxide is fixed to phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) rather than Ribulose 1,5 BiP. These plants are known as C4 plants and the pathway is known as the Hatch-Slack Pathway.
Some of the plants that use this pathway are corn, sugar cane, sugar beets, and crabgrass. These plants make better use of carbon dioxide, have photorespiration near zero, reduced water loss, and are adapted to high light and temperature and dryness. In short, they save more of the photosynthate (sugar) they make.

( To be continued)