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Metabolic Strategy of Annual Desert Plants: Adaptive Phenomenon of CAM and C4 Photosynthesis Functioning in a Leaf

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Three types of autotrophic tissues are shown to be present in the leaves of four species from Chenopodiaceae and their anatomo-morphological and physiological characteristics are described. It has been concluded that C4 photosynthesis can function in two chlorenchyma layers. The potential ability of water storage parenchyma to carry out photosynthesis has been estimated; the dynamics of cell sap pH, the degree of the stomata opening, and starch content in the chloroplasts of a certain tissue during a day have been studied. Rates of CO2 assimilation over the period of 24 h, the kinetics of radiocarbon incorporation into photosynthates, and the carbon distribution in assimilating tissues as well as the activities of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, and aspartate and alanine aminotransferases were measured in the leaves of some Chenopodiaceae species grown on salt marsh of the Kara-Kum Desert. It was demonstrated that in the leaves of Suaeda arcuata, Suaeda crassifolia, and Climacoptera crassa the C4 pathway of photosynthesis was operated between the two layers of chlorenchyma cells while in the water storage chlorenchyma, a heterotrophic CO2 fixation took place with high rates in the night. In ontogenesis of the investigated plants, CO2 assimilation function of water storage tissue (WST) is found only in the leaves of summer generation during the period of the most severe xerothermic conditions. Anatomy structure and photosynthetic carbon metabolism in plants grown on soils with varying salinity in the Central Kara-Kum Desert were investigated. Annual plants grown on slightly saline soils were mainly presented by C3 and C4 xerophytes, but those on heavily saline soils and on salt marsh—by C4 and C4-CAM succulents with WSTs assimilating CO2 by the CAM pathway.

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    Valery Yu. Lyubimov & Karl Ya. Biel

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Lyubimov, V.Y., Biel, K.Y. (2015). Metabolic Strategy of Annual Desert Plants: Adaptive Phenomenon of CAM and C4 Photosynthesis Functioning in a Leaf. In: Tripathi, B., Müller, M. (eds) Stress Responses in Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13368-3_9

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