Question

What is Kronz Anatomy? What is significance of kronz anatomy plants?

Answer 1

Kranz anatomy. the special structure of leaves in C4PLANTS (e.g. maize) where the tissue equivalent to the spongy mesophyll cells is clustered in a ring around the leaf veins, outside the bundle-sheath cells.

C4 plants typically possess a distinctive Kranz leaf anatomy consisting of two photosynthetic cell types. These are bundle sheath (BS) cells that surround the vascular centers, and mesophyll (M) cells that, in turn, surround the BS cells. A more rare form uses compartmentalization of dimorphic chloroplasts within a single cell type. In C4 leaves, these structural frameworks functionally separate two sets of carboxylation and decarboxylation reactions.