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A Model for Photosynthetic Oscillations in Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM)
✍ Scribed by B. Blasius; F. Beck; U. Lüttge
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 283 KB
- Volume
- 184
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5193
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✦ Synopsis
We propose a model of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) describing the varying concentrations of pools of major metabolites by a system of coupled nonlinear differential equations. The model shows regular oscillations in normal day night and free-running endogeneous oscillations in continuous light. The effect of temperature is incorporated in a realistic way. It leads to the correct dependence of the oscillatory period length on temperature as compared to experimental observations.