WEB TOPIC 8-10 - Single Cell C4 photosynthesis

WOLOSIUK, R.A. AND BUCHANAN, B.B.

Plant Physiology, 5th. ed

Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers

Lugar: Sunderland, Massachusetts; Año: 2009; p. 1 - 4

Land plants that concentrate atmospheric CO2 via C4 photosynthesis are characterized by a leaf anatomy with two structurally specialized photosynthetic cell types, mesophyll and bundle sheath (Kranz anatomy). Two species, Bienertia cycloptera and Borszczowia aralocaspica (family Chenopodiaceae); accomplish C4 photosynthesis within a single chlorenchyma cell. Both species are able to perform the novel form of C4 photosynthesis by the intracellular partitioning of enzymes and organelles in two compartments.