#Question id: 10486
#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant
A patch clamp study shows a guard cell protoplast treated in the dark with the fungal toxin fusicoccin which is a well-characterized,
#Question id: 10487
#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant
During the patch clamp experiments measure outward electric
current in picoamps, pA at the plasma membrane of a guard cell protoplast
stimulated by two points A and B showing in the graph.
What is A and B
#Question id: 10488
#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant
Blue light activates a proton pump at the guard cell plasma
membrane. The relationship between proton pumping at the guard cell plasma
membrane and stomatal opening is evident from the observations that;
#Question id: 10489
#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant
Malate anions, by contrast, are synthesized in the guard cell cytosol, in a metabolic pathway that uses carbon skeletons generated by
#Question id: 10490
#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant
Which of the following is a correct Match of the stomatal opening and closing mechanism;
| COLUMN A | COLUMN B |
| P- Opening of Stomata | i) Chloride anions are taken up into the guard cells from the apoplast |
| Q- Closing of stomata | ii) The malate content of guard cells decreases |
| iii) starch content in guard cells increases during end of the | |
| iv) Acidification of the lumen stimulates zeaxanthin formation which activates the H+ ATPase causing | |
| v) Accumulation of solute in vacuole such as sucrose and malate leads to |
#Question id: 10491
#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant
Acidification of the lumen stimulates zeaxanthin formation, and alkalinization favors violaxanthin formation. Lumen pH depends on photosynthetic photon flux density, most effective at
