A new experimental pesticide is being tested by a large agricultural chemical company. An unfortunate side effect in plants treated with this new product is a partial inhibition of ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase in the chloroplasts

Given this observation, what specific
change(s), if any, would you expect to observe in the amounts of NADPH, ATP, 3-
phosphoglycerate and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate, and RuBP in the chloroplasts of these
plants?
What will be an ideal response?


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