INVESTIGADORES
IGLESIAS Alberto Alvaro
artículos
Título:
The C4 Pathway of Photosynthesis and Its Regulation
Autor/es:
A.A. IGLESIAS, D.H. GONZÁLEZ, C.S. ANDREO
Revista:
BIOCHEMICAL EDUCATION
Referencias:
Año: 1986 vol. 14 p. 98 - 102
ISSN:
0307-4412
Resumen:
During the 1960s, strong evidence from several laboratories suggested that in sometropical plants, such as maize and sugar cane, the first products that become labelled as aconsequence of 14CO2 fixation were C4 acids and not glycerate 3-phosphate or relatedcompounds. These observations were explained by Hatch and Slack, in Australia, whoproposed a different pathway for CO2 fixation in these plants. 1 This route is known as theC4 pathway of photosynthesis, or the Hatch-Slack cycle, and the plants that possess it aretermed Ca plants.