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CAM helps the plants in:

  • Option 1)

    Conserving water

  • Option 2)

    Secondary growth

  • Option 3)

    disease resistance

  • Option 4)

    Reproduction

 

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Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM cycle) -

In this pathway stomata open at night to reduce transpiration and fixed COto malic acid which gets stored in vacuoles.

 

- wherein

CAM plants are succulents in the habit and have the slowest photosynthetic rate.

fig 26

 

 


Option 1)

Conserving water

Correct Option

Option 2)

Secondary growth

Incorrect Option

Option 3)

disease resistance

Incorrect Option

Option 4)

Reproduction

Incorrect Option

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