explain the C4 pathway
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The C4pathway involves steps that first converts pyruvate to phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to bind with the CO2 forming a four-carbon compound (hence the name CO2 common in C3 carbon fixation pathway is minimized.
Plants that first go through the C4 pathway are better adapted than plants that solely go through the C3 pathway under conditions of drought, high temperatures and low nitrogen or CO2 concentrations.
Word origin: from the intermediate organic compound, which contains four carbon atoms, hence the name C4.
Plants that first go through the C4 pathway are better adapted than plants that solely go through the C3 pathway under conditions of drought, high temperatures and low nitrogen or CO2 concentrations.
Word origin: from the intermediate organic compound, which contains four carbon atoms, hence the name C4.
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An initial carbon fixation take place in mesophylam cell and the calvin cycle take place in bundleseath cell. PEP carboxylase
attachesand an incoming carbon dioxide molecule to the three carbon molecule PEP producing oxaloacetate.
attachesand an incoming carbon dioxide molecule to the three carbon molecule PEP producing oxaloacetate.
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