Preventing Photorespiration"s Damaging Effects To Sports Turf - Couverture souple

Haag, Jeff

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0359411517 ISBN 13 : 9780359411511

Editeur : Lulu.com, 2019

Synopsis

RuBP oxygenase-carboxylase (rubisco), a key enzyme in photosynthesis, is the molecular equivalent of a good friend with a bad habit. In the process of carbon fixation, rubisco incorporates carbon dioxide (\text{CO}_2CO2) into an organic molecule during the first stage of the Calvin cycle. Rubisco is so important to plants that it makes up 30\%%30%% or more of the soluble protein in a typical plant leaf^11. But rubisco also has a major flaw: instead of always using \text{CO}_2CO2 as a substrate, it sometimes picks up \text O_2O2 instead. This side reaction initiates a pathway called photorespiration, which, rather than fixing carbon, actually leads to the loss of already-fixed carbon as \text{CO}_2CO2. Photorespiration wastes energy and decreases sugar synthesis, so when rubisco initiates this pathway, it's committing a serious molecular faux pas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lulu.com
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0359411517
• ISBN 13: 9780359411511
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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