CAM Plants as Crops: Metabolically flexible, hardy plants for a changing world

TRÍPODI, KARINA; ROJAS, BRUNO E.; IGLESIAS, ALBERTO A.; PODESTÁ, FLORENCIO E.

Hanbook of Plant and Crop Physiology, 4th Edition

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group

Lugar: Boca Raton; Año: 2021; p. 1083 - 1098

CONTENTS48.1 The CAM Pathway of Carbon Fixation...........................................108348.1.1 Introduction...................................................................................108348.1.2 The Core Processes of Photosynthetic Carbon Fixation: C3 and C4 Plants......................................................................................108448.1.3 CAM Plants: General Description.................................................108648.2 Biochemistry of CAM......................................................................108848.2.1 Night Period Reactions..................................................................108848.2.2 Day Reactions................................................................................108948.3 Regulation..........................................................................................109148.3.1 Transcriptional Regulation..............................................................109148.3.2 Posttranscriptional and Translational Regulation............................109148.3.3 Tonoplast.........................................................................................109148.4 Evolution and Taxonomic Distribution..............................................109248.5 Productivity and Use of CAM Plants as Crops..................................109348.6 Ecophysiology....................................................................................109448.7 Conclusions and Perspectives............................................................109448.8 Acknowledgments..............................................................................1095