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JIPMER 2011
Exam
JIPMER
Year
2011
Subject
Botany
Chapter
Photosynthesis in Higher Plants

JIPMER 2011 · Botany · Photosynthesis in Higher Plants

In leaves of C_4 plants malic acid synthesis during CO_2 fixation...

In leaves of C4\mathrm{C}_4 plants malic acid synthesis during CO2\mathrm{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 C4\mathrm{C}_4-plants CO2\mathrm{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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