Plant Question
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Plant Question
In general, if a plant is kept away from the light, what specifically will happen to the plant's Calvin cycle?
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Not that simple... as usual... It will die eventually but depending on which type of plant it is. the plant will live longer if it a CAM plant(a pineapple tree, a cactus, any crasulacee) because they can do calvin cycle in the dark as long as there is enough abscisic acid and malic acid accumulated in their vacuoles. These plants normally do Calvin-Bensen cycle at night. For a C3 or C4 plant, this does not go and it will take only a very short time until the ATP and NADPH run out...
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Actually research shows that the dark reaction does not use light energy as power in order to occur. It does need energy in order to activate enzymes(not in CAM plants). However, this qill not be a problem, since you will run out of NADPH long before you run out of already-activated enzymes
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