✦ LIBER ✦
The photosynthetic pathway types of some desert plants from India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iraq
✍ Scribed by H. Ziegler; K. H. Batanouny; N. Sankhla; O. P. Vyas; W. Stichler
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 571 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0029-8549
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✦ Synopsis
Plants collected from different habitats in the deserts of India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iraq were screened for their photosynthetic CO-fixation pathways using δC and δD values. The analyses comprised 128 species belonging to 108 genera and 46 families. Neither the C nor the CAM pathway was prevalent in the plant families analyzed except in Poaceae, where C metabolism absolutely dominated. Of 93 dicotyledonous plants, only 10 exhibited a C pathway and only 2 were CAM plants. The study shows that some species reported by other workers as C plants are clearly C ones.