C-3 Plant

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-003900",
  "term": "C-3 Plant",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Plants (e.g., soybean, wheat, and cotton) whose carbon- fixation products have three carbon atoms per molecule. Compared with C4 plants, C3 plants show a greater increase in photosynthesis with a doubling of CO2 concentration and less decrease in stomatal conductance, which results in an increase in leaf-level water-use efficiency.\n\n2. Plants in which the CO2 is initially fixed by the Calvin cycle in photosynthesis.",
  "references": [
    "NASA Sustainable Development Indicators Glossary",
    "USDA National Agricultural Library Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/c-3-plant/"
}