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Enzymatic synthesis (including brief review of formation in photosynthesis), and interconversion of the monosaccharides

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Aufbau · Speicherung · Mobilisierung und Umbildung der Kohlenhydrate / Formation · Storage · Mobilization and Transformation of Carbohydrates

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The carbohydrates are primarily the product of photosynthetic activity in plants1. In this process the green plants capture electromagnetic energy in the form of sunlight and transform it into stored chemical energy in the form of a wide variety of reduced (relative to CO2) carbon compounds, chiefly carbohydrates. The over-all reaction of the basic process of photosynthesis as it occurs in green plants is given by the classical equation in which CO2 and water are taken up by the plant and reduced to carbohydrate with the evolution of oxygen:

$${\rm{C}}{{\rm{O}}_2} + {{\rm{H}}_2}{\rm{O}}\mathop {\rightleftharpoons} \limits_{ - \mathop {{\rm{energy}}}\limits_{{\rm{respiration}}} }^{\mathop {{\rm{photosynthesis}}}\limits_{ + hv} } {{\rm{O}}_2} + ({\rm{C}}{{\rm{H}}_2}{\rm{O}}){\rm{x}}$$

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Hassid, W.Z. (1958). Enzymatic synthesis (including brief review of formation in photosynthesis), and interconversion of the monosaccharides. In: Åberg, B., et al. Aufbau · Speicherung · Mobilisierung und Umbildung der Kohlenhydrate / Formation · Storage · Mobilization and Transformation of Carbohydrates. Handbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie / Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-94731-5_3

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