Artificial selection- Genetically improving animals and plants by breeding together the best individuals in their fields and flocks.

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

In CAM plants, Nocturnal phosphorylation of PEPCase controls primary carboxylation. PEPCase‐kinase transcripts accumulate during the night, controlled by the circadian oscillator and metabolites.

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

The concentration at which net change in CO2 is 0 defines the CO2 compensation point and reflects the CO2 concentration at which the rate of gross photosynthetic CO2  uptake exactly equals the respiration rate.

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Diurnal changes in xanthophyll content as a

function of PPFD

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD)—the flux of light (usually expressed as micromoles per square meter per second [μmol m–2 s–1]) within the photosynthetically active range (400–700 nm).

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Photosynthesis as a function of leaf temperature

at normal atmospheric CO2 concentrations for a C3

plant grown in its natural cool habitat and a C4 plant growing in its natural hot habitat

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Photorespiration is very low in C4 plants and the quantum yield does not

show a temperature dependence.