Botany - Photosynthesis in Higher Plants Question with Solution | TestHub
Photorespiration shows formation of
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Photorespiration is the light dependent process of oxygenation of ribulose biphosphate (RuBP) and release of carbon dioxide by the photosynthetic organs of a plant. Normally photosynthetic organs do the reverse in the light, i.e., uptake of and release of . At high temperature, RuBP carboxylase functions as oxygenase and instead of fixing carbon dioxide ( cycle), oxidises ribulose 1,5 -biphosphate to produce a 3-carbon phosphoglyceric acid and a 2-carbon phosphoglycolate. Photorespiration does not produce energy or reducing power. Rather, it consumes energy. Further, it undoes the work of photosynthesis. There is loss of fixed . Therefore, photorespiration is a highly wasteful process. This happens only in case of plants. plants have overcome the problem of photorespiration.
