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Photosynthesis

Carbon Metabolism: Chloroplast Capability and the Uncertain Fate of CO2

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Progress in Botany / Fortschritte der Botanik

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Following elucidation of the Calvin cycle of photosynthetic CO2 fixation in the early 1950s, the carbon economy of plants was viewed for many years as being a simple balance between fixation by chloroplast RuBP carboxylase and release by mitochondrial respiration. However, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, details became clear of the paths followed by carbon in the newly-discovered processes of CAM1, the C4 pathway of photosynthesis, and photorespiration. These added new dimensions to the biochemical description of carbon balance in that other carboxylation and decarboxylation reactions were recognized as being quantitatively significant in determining this balance.

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Abbreviations

CAM:

crassulacean acid metabolism

CoA:

coenzyme A

FBP:

fructose-1,6-P2

GAP:

glyceraldehyde-3-P

OAA:

oxaloacetate

PEP:

P-enolpyruvate

RuBP:

ribulose-1,5-P2

SBP:

sedoheptulose-1,7-P2

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Latzko, E., Kelly, G.J. (1980). Photosynthesis. In: Progress in Botany / Fortschritte der Botanik. Progress in Botany/Fortschritte der Botanik, vol 42. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67873-8_3

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