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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Microbiol. 2018 Dec 5;27(3):231–242. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2018.11.002

Figure 2. Detoxifying ROS in the diurnal world.

Figure 2.

High rates of photosynthetic metabolism in light generate damaging ROS. During the day NADPH produced via photosynthesis can aid in clearing such molecules. At night ROS production ceases, and remaining ROS is cleared by nighttime metabolism. Here, detoxification can be aided by NADPH produced through degradation of glycogen by the OPPP.