Annals of Botany 2004 94(6):919-920; doi:10.1093/aob/mch220
Annals of Botany 94/6, © Annals of Botany Company 2004; all rights reserved
Photosynthetic rate and dynamic environment.
Kazutoshi Yabuki, 2004.
Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
50 (hardback). 130 pp.
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In photosynthesis, CO
2 enters the
leaf from the atmosphere and moves to the active site of the
carboxylating enzyme, to be bound in an organic compound. The
process is largely diffusional and the pathway, although complicated
in detail, is usually split into sections related to different
anatomic structures, such as chloroplasts, cell walls, intercellular
air space, stomatal pores and, finally the leaf boundary layer.
Biologists have mainly been concerned with those sections that
are embedded within the leaf, considering the boundary layer
as something external, not under the control by biological processes.
Well, light is also not controlled
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