Botany - Photosynthesis in Higher Plants Question with Solution | TestHub

Photorespiration is a metabolic pathway that occurs in plants in the presence of light, in which ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase the (RuBisCO) enzyme involved in carbon dioxide fixation with ribulose bisphosphate, accepts oxygen, in place of carbon dioxide, resulting in the formation of a twocarbon compound, glycolate. Most of the fixed carbon represented by the glycolate can be salvaged by a series of reactions-the glycolate pathway - involving the peroxisomes and mitochondria, and returned to the chloroplasts. However, some of the carbon is lost as carbon dioxide. Unlike respiration there is no production of ATP.