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In leaves of C ₄ plants malic acid synthesis during CO ₂ fixation occurs in

Options

  1. Abundle sheath
  2. Bmesophyll
  3. Cepidermis
  4. Dguard cells

Correct answer

B. mesophyll

Step-by-step solution

In C ₄ -plants CO ₂ combines with phosphoenol pyruvic acid to form oxaloacetic acid in mesophyll chloroplasts. It is further reduced to malic acid which is transferred to chloroplast in bundle sheath cells.

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