Multiple choice

Sugarcane shows high efficiency of CO2 fixation due to which of the following?

  1. Calvin cycle

  2. Hatch-Slack cycle

  3. TCA cycle

  4. Greater sunlight

  5. -
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The C4 pathway was elucidated by Marshall Davidson Hatch and C. R. Slack in Australia in 1966. It is sometimes called the Hatch-Slack pathway. This pathway is a modification of Calvin cycle and is advantageous to plants that grow in dense stands of tropical vegetation, where the CO2 concentration may be very much reduced.

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