Answer:
plants chemically fix carbon dioxide in the cells of the
mesophyll by adding it to the three-carbon molecule phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP),
a reaction catalysed by an enzyme called PEP carboxylase. It creates the
four-carbon organic acid, oxaloacetic acid. Oxaloacetic acid or malate
synthesised by this process is then translocated to specialized bundle sheath
cells where the enzyme, RuBisCO and other Calvin cycle enzymes are located and
where CO2 released by decarboxylation of the four-carbon acids is
then fixed by RuBisCO activity to the three-carbon sugar 3-phosphoglyceric
acids.
The physical separation of RuBisCO from the
oxygen-generating light reactions reduces photorespiration and increases CO2
fixation and thus photosynthetic capacity of the leaf.
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