CHAPTER 10 PHOTOSYNTHESIS

In one strategy, C4 plants first fix CO2 in a four-carbon compound. Several thousand plants in 19 plant families, including sugarcane and corn, use this pathway. A unique leaf anatomy is correlated with the mechanism of C4 photosynthesis. In C4 plants, there are two distinct types of photosynthetic cells: bundle-sheath cells and mesophyll cells. ................
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