Term Information

Accession
GO:0009761
Name
CAM photosynthesis
Ontology
biological_process
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Definition
The combination of atmospheric CO2 with a 3-carbon molecule phosphoenol pyruvate (PEP) to make malic acid. The malic acid is then passed into the vacuole where it is stored until daylight, when it is shuttled back out to be used as a substrate in the light reaction of photosynthesis. Source: ISBN:0582015952
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Parents of CAM photosynthesis (GO:0009761)
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CAM photosynthesis [is_a relation] is_a  carbon fixation (GO:0015977)
CAM photosynthesis [is_a relation] is_a  photosynthesis, dark reaction (GO:0019685)

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