Post No. 6: How Does Your Garden Grow?

Upon observing the growth of my group's Broccoli plant several weeks ago, various things became clear including that the plant was slowly growing and being outpaced by other plants and weeds. Though the plant was growing at a snail's pace, it was still growing and adding biomass by using the carbon molecules left over from photosynthesis, cell division  and cellular respiration. However as of 4/16/18, our group has no plant as it has either expired or accidentally pulled.

Broccoli plant's site as of 4/16/18.

Broccoli plant shortly after being planted.

  Continuing on to the subject of Phosphoglycerate kinase (PKG) and RuBisCo, if a plant were in need of more PKG it would need to activate the PKG1 gene, this gene includes the instructions for creating the PKG enzyme through glycosis and is found in various cells and tissues throughout the plant structure. However, if a plant were in need of RuBisCo, it would need to initiate photorespiration and photosynthesis which in turn would produce RuBisCo.