How plants adopt themselves to avoid photorespiration?

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2026-10-15 02:35

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Spatially, in C4 plants. They separate the light reaction and the Calvin cycle into the mesophyll cells and the bundle sheath cells respectively. Rubisco, which has a bad habit of fixing oxygen in low CO2 level conditions, is in the bundle sheath cells where it receives four carbon molecules, oxaloacetates, that it can take carbon from for fixing into the Calvin cycle. CAM plants use the same C4 process, but in the mesophyll cells alone and use a night/day divide process of carbon intake and fixation to avoid photorespiration and water loss.

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