We are know C4 plants are able to concentrate CO2, thus allowing RuBisCO to operate at a faster rate than in C3 plants. But since it is of "better design", why don’t C4 plants dominate the planet (i.e., what are their molecular and physiological limitations)?
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Posted 10 March 2010 - 03:42 PM
People here won't usually help you unless you can demonstrate that you have had a go at answering the question yourself... so what do you think?
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Posted 17 April 2010 - 07:27 AM
chemidiot, on Mar 10 2010, 02:00 PM, said:
We are know C4 plants are able to concentrate CO2, thus allowing RuBisCO to operate at a faster rate than in C3 plants. But since it is of "better design", why don’t C4 plants dominate the planet (i.e., what are their molecular and physiological limitations)?
if you have no concrete idea, try to think in principle terms: Why does diversity exists in nature?
