Crassulacean acid metabolism
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title:
Crassulacean acid metabolism
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Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis, is a carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions that allows a plant to photosynthesize during the day, but only exchange gases at night. In a plant using full CAM, the stomata in the leaves remain shut during the day to reduce evapotranspiration, but they open at night to collect carbon dioxide and allow it to diffuse into the mesophyll cells. The CO2 is stored as four-carbon malic acid i
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Metabolic process
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassulacean_acid_metabolism
date created:
2004-01-12T23:21:36Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T08:57:16Z
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