Bienertia sinuspersici

Bienertia sinuspersici
Bienertia sinuspersici
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Amaranthaceae
Subfamily:	Suaedoideae
Genus:	Bienertia
Species:	B. sinuspersici
Binomial name
Bienertia sinuspersici Akhani

Bienertia sinuspersici is a flowering plant that currently is classified in the family Amaranthaceae, although it was previously considered to belong to the family Chenopodiaceae.

Bienertia sinuspersici conducts C₄ photosynthesis, but lacks the two cell types, bundle sheath and mesophyll cells, that are typical of Kranz anatomy in most C₄ plants. Bienertia sinuspersici and three other former chenopods (Suaeda aralocaspica, Bienertia cycloptera, and Bienertia kavirense) instead conduct single-celled C₄ photosynthesis within individual chlorenchyma cells. Single-celled C₄ photosynthesis is achieved in Bienertia sinuspersici by the subcellular partitioning of dimorphic chloroplasts into two distinct cellular compartments, the central chloroplast compartment (CCC) and the peripheral chloroplast compartment (PCC).

Bienertia sinuspersici is native to countries surrounding the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait. Bienertia Sinuspersici is a desert plant that is well adapted to growing in hot, dry, high salt environments.^[1]

References

1. Akhani, H., Barroca, J., Koteeva, N., Voznesenskaya, E., Franceschi, V., Edwards, G., ... & Ziegler, H. (2005). Bienertia sinuspersici (Chenopodiaceae): a new species from southwest Asia and discovery of a third terrestrial C4 plant without Kranz anatomy. Systematic Botany, 30(2), 290-301.