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Agriculture · Q524

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 524

Q524

C4 cycle was discovered in

A.
Groundnut
B.
Sugarcane
Answer
C.
Chrysanthemum
D.
Apple

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
The C4 cycle was discovered in Sugarcane.
C4 carbon fixation is one of three known photosynthetic processes of carbon fixation in plants.
It owes the name to the 1960's discovery by Marshall Davidson Hatch and Charles Roger Slack in a sugarcane plant that refers when supplied with 14CO2, incorporates the 14C label into four-carbon molecules first.