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Metabolism and Enzymology

Relationship between Respiration and CAM-Cycling in Peperomia camptotricha¹

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521

Mature leaves of well-watered Peperomia camptotricha show Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM). Young leaves show CAM-cycling in which CO₂ uptake occurs during the day concomitant with a marked diurnal fluctuation of organic acids as in CAM. Evidence is presented suggesting that respiration is the source of CO₂ for nocturnal acid synthesis in leaves exhibiting CAM-cycling. Respiratory quotients for these leaves were consistently much less than unity despite the fact that the leaves metabolize starch. The conservation of CO₂ by refixation into acids at night represents about 17% of the total photosynthetically fixed CO₂ and about 50% of the total respiratory CO₂.

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