Context

Arabidopsis thaliana · leaf mesophyll

Arabidopsis thaliana · mesófilo foliar

The leaf mesophyll cell, where photosynthesis happens. It has chloroplasts and peroxisomes on top of the machinery it shares with the animal cell, and that is why it can fix carbon and also pay the price of doing it wrong when oxygen gets in where carbon dioxide should.

Active pathways

• Light reactions5 reactions
• Calvin-Benson cycle13 reactions
• Photorespiration6 reactions

Compartments

• stroma
• thylakoid membrane
• thylakoid lumen
• cytosol
• peroxisome
• mitochondrial matrix