Class 11 NEET Biology Respiration In Plants Questions

(d) : Kornberg and Krebs (1957) gave glyoxylate cycle in Pseudomonas bacteria. It involves conversion of insoluble fats into soluble sugars. This occurs in germinating fatty seeds because plants are not able to transport fats from the endosperm to the root and shoot tissues of the germinating seedling, so they must convert stored lipids to a more mobile form of carbon, generally sucrose.