CAM Plants as Crops. Adaptable, metabolically flexible, and high productive cultivars

K.E TRÍPODI; F.E. PODESTÁ; C.M. FIGUEROA; C.V. PIATTONI; A.A. IGLESIAS; V.E. PEROTTI

Hanbook of Plant and Crop Physiology, 3rd Edition

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group

Lugar: Boca Raton; Año: 2014; p. 831 - 845

CONTENTS38.1 CAM Pathway of Carbon Fixation ....................................................................................... 83138.1.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 83138.1.2 Core Processes of Photosynthetic Carbon Fixation: C3 and C Plants ..................... 83238.1.3 CAM Plants: General Description ............................................................................ 833438.2 Biochemistry of CAM .......................................................................................................... 83538.2.1 Night Period Reactions ............................................................................................. 83538.2.2 Day Reactions ........................................................................................................... 83738.3 Regulation ............................................................................................................................. 83938.3.1 Transcriptional Regulation ....................................................................................... 83938.3.2 Posttranscriptional and Translational Regulation ..................................................... 84038.3.3 Posttranslational Regulation ..................................................................................... 84038.3.4 Tonoplast ................................................................................................................... 84038.4 Evolution and Taxonomic Distribution ................................................................................. 84038.5 Productivity and Use of CAM Plants as Crops .................................................................... 84138.6 Ecophysiology ....................................................................................................................... 84138.7 Conclusions and Perspectives ............................................................................................... 842Acknowledgments .......................................................................................................................... 843References ...................................................................................................................................... 843