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<FONT FACE="Verdana">Forgive me for returning to an old theme that I have troubled you with in the past.<BR>
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For half a century or more, it has been clear that the path of<BR>
starch synthesis in chloroplasts starts with triose<BR>
phosphates and progresses to polymer formation via<BR>
glucose-1-P rather than free glucose. Glucose is no more a product of carbon<BR>
assimilation by illuminated chloroplasts than is sucrose.<BR>
So, why do textbooks insist that it is?. <BR>
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If you wish to read a recent article about this you can find it by pasting<BR>
<FONT SIZE="4">DOI 10.1007/s11120-007-9139-3</FONT> <BR>
into Google<BR>
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Best Christmas wishes<BR>
>From David Alan Walker, FRS; Emeritus Professor of Photosynthesis, University of Sheffield, UK.<BR>
http://www.oxygraphics.co.uk/<BR>
http://www.peerlesspublications.co.uk/ <BR>
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