in desert plants leaves are reduced to spines in order to reduce loss of water. how do such plants prepare food
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Desert plants also prepare their food by the process of photosynthesis. In desert plants photosynthesis takes place in their stem. Because their stems look green because of the presence of chlorophyll in them...
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Desert plants have their stomata closed during the day to conserve water.
Light dependent and light independent reactions of photosynthesis occur only during the day.
Desert plants keep their stomata open at night. The exchange of gases occurs during the night time.
CO2 that enters the mesophyll cells of plants is fixed by the PEP carboxylase into malate.
Malate gets stored in other cell organelles such as vacuoles.
During the day, the malate is sent to the stroma of the chloroplasts.
It is broken down into CO2 and pyruvate.
CO2 then enters the Calvin cycle or light-independent reaction.
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