Are there any enzymes specifically found in plants?

hanqiangycl

as the title...biology people please help

Reply 1

Waterstorm

Yes, in the seeds for germination, shame nobody answerd my thread about a coursework I have on seed germination :frown:

. Google structure of seed and you'll find out a lot.

Also when doing photosynthesis (I haven't done this for a while), in PSII (photosystem 2) which is located in the grana in the chloroplast, light strikes the photosystem and electrons are exicted to a higher energy level and there's an enzyme in the photosystem which catalyses the breakdown of water into H+ ions and electrons, and these electrons replace the electrons lost in PSII. That's the light dependant stage by the way. You must have done this during your A levels?

That's all I can think off at the moment.

Reply 2

Oladz

hanqiangycl

as the title...biology people please help

Yes, in fact, the most abundant enzyme on the planet is the plant enzyme rubisco

Reply 3

cowsgoquack

Oladz

Yes, in fact, the most abundant enzyme on the planet is the plant enzyme rubisco

rubisco is found in algae and bacteria too

Reply 4

cowsgoquack

And to answer your question there are loads.

Here's an interesting one:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/wuis-nrp021005.php

Reply 5

Oladz

cowsgoquack

rubisco is found in algae and bacteria too

my bad

(did think algae were plants though :confused:

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Reply 6

cowsgoquack

Oladz

my bad

(did think algae were plants though :confused:

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Algae are both a polyphyletic and paraphyletic group: If you said 'I thought plants were algae' you'd be more correct, as plants are multi-cellular organisms which are thought to have evolved from a group of algae - Green Algae. But plants are excluded.