Photorespiration

2009 ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship award announcement

...dergraduate researchers. It is so exciting to not only become a member of ASPB, but also to have the opportunity to do some really cool research about photorespiration and to present my findings alongside my peers at the conference in Montreal. I would like to thank my colleague, Kathleen Chuchra-Zbytniuk and the oth...

Photorespiration in Biological Definition

Photorespiration

Photorespiration is an alternate pathway for rubisco , the main enzyme of photosynthesis (specifically, the Calvin cycle ). Although rubisco favors carbon , it can also use oxygen , producing glycolate . This usually occurs when oxygen levels are high; for example, when the stomata (tiny...

Photosynthesis

...n is abundant in the chloroplast in comparison to carbon dioxide due to some reason, such as competition in a dense overgrowth or closure of stomata, photorespiration can occur. This is a counter-productive pathway, and instead works against sugar production. Discovery Although some of the steps in photosy...

Photosynthesis

...n is abundant in the chloroplast in comparison to carbon dioxide due to some reason, such as competition in a dense overgrowth or closure of stomata, photorespiration can occur. This is a counter-productive pathway, and instead works against sugar production. Discovery Although some of the steps in photosy...

Photorespiration in Biological Dictionary

Photorespiration

Photorespiration is the process by which RuBP, (a sugar) has oxygen added to it by the the main enzyme involved in photosynthesis, rubisco, instead of carbon dioxide as happens during photosynthesis. Rubisco favours carbon... photorespiration n. Oxidation of carbohydrates in plants wit...