stomata of desert plants remain closed during day time, how do they take up CO2 to perform photosynthesis???

 

The deserts plants grow in dry conditions. In such plants, carbon dioxide is taken up by the leaves on the green stem through stomata, which remain open in the night. How ever , during the day, the stomata remain closed to conserve moisture. These plants carry out photosynthesis without much loss of water.

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 They actually takes in water during night but make thier food on next morning!!

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during day they absorb water from the soil but the stomata remain close during day to avoid loss of water and during night they absorbe co2 and prepare their food at night.

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but plants generally releases co2 at night.  

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CAM (Desert plants) open their stomata at night (when water evaporates more slowly from leaves for a given degree of stomatal opening), use PEPcarboxylase to fix carbon dioxide and store the products in large vacuoles. The following day, they close their stomata and release the carbon dioxide fixed the previous night into the presence of enzyme RUBisCo (fixes carbon dioxide to ribulose 1,5- bisphosphate.

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How do desert plants perform photosynthesis pocess if their stomata is closed during day?

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they take carbon dioxide in the night time, and use it in the morning.

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At night, they take in CO2 and during the day, they perform photosynthesis with what water and CO2 they have stored

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