[Visitor (111.8.*.*)]answers [Chinese ] | Time :2020-03-27 | The initial product of CO2 assimilation is not the tricarbonate 3-phosphoglycerate in the photosynthetic carbon cycle, but a plant of the four-carbon compounds malic or aspartic acid. Also called C4 plant. Such as corn, sugar cane, sorghum, amaranth and so on. Plants whose initial product is 3-phosphoglycerate are called C3 plants (C3 plants).
definition
The first product of CO2 assimilation
Examples of C4 plants
Corn, sugarcane, sorghum, purslane |
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