C3 Plant

This is a tomato plant. Plants like these, temperate crops like wheat, and all woody trees are known as C3 plants. These type of plants utilize the Calvin cycle to break down carbon dioxide (CO2) during photosynthesis. When C3 plants, like this tomato plant, undergo photosynthesis, the CO2 will attach to the molecule RuBP during the Calvin cycle and produce a 3 carbon 3-PGA. One disadvantage this plant has is it is unable to survive in a hot and dry environment like C4 and CAM plants can. If this tomato plant were to be put in such a climate, it would end up closing their stoma, thus slowing down CO2 intake and photosynthesis and ultimately crop production.