Calvin Cycle and Photorespiration

Calvin Cycle
Where does the Calvin Cycle occur? In the stroma What goes into the Calvin Cycle? ATP, NADPH, Carbon Dioxide What comes out of the Calvin Cycle? Sugar, ADP, NADP+

The G3P made in the Calvin Cycle is involved in the biosynthesis of other organic molecules

Rate of Photosynthesis
What is a rate? It is the activity per unit time. What factors can affect the
photosynthetic rate?

Light Intensity

The Effect of Light Intensity on Photosynthetic Rate

Temperature

The Effect of Temperature on Photosynthetic Rate

The Effect of Light Intensity and Temperature on Photosynthetic Rate

Which is the limiting factor here; light intensity or temp.?

Oxygen Concentration

What would a graph for increasing levels of CO 2 look like?

Why Does Oxygen Effect Photosynthetic Rate?

What is the role of rubisco? Rubisco incorporates carbon dioxide
into the RuBP during the Calvin cycle. Rubisco, however, has an active site that accommodates both oxygen and carbon dioxide. What happens when rubisco incorporates oxygen into the RuBP molecule?

Photorespiration
The overall rate of photosynthesis
decreases. Photorespiration and photosynthesis occur at the same time

Conditions for Photorespiation

What conditions will lead to a lot of
photorespiration? Hot Dry Sunny What happens to stomates under such conditions? They close.

Evolution
Why does rubisco bind both oxygen and
carbon dioxide? When Calvin Cycle evolved there was little oxygen in the atmosphere.

Solutions
What solutions have some plants found
for this problem? C4 Pathway. Sugarcane, corn, crabgrass have all evolved a different structure that minimizes photorespiration.

What is the new structure?

Different between C3 vs. C4 plants

Photorespiration? Leaf anatomy? Levels of tolerancy under the hot, dry, sunny conditions that favor photorespiration? Light comp. point? CO2 comp. point?

The bundle sheath cells!

How do the bundle sheath cells minimize photorespiration?

CAM Plants
At night, stomata open, take in CO 2,
incorporate it into organic acids and store those acids in vacuoles until daylight during the day, stomates close down, release CO2 and rubisco incorporates it into sugar.

The organic acids stored at night, break

Mesophyll cell

 C4 plants use a new structure to solve

the photorespiration problem. CAM plants use time to solve the photorespiration problem.

Photorespiration cycle