Plants adapted to low light intensity have:

Plants adapted to low light intensity have:
  1. larger photosynthetic unit size than the sun plants
  2. higher rate of $\mathrm{CO}_2$ fixation than the sun plants
  3. more extended root system
  4. leaves modified to spines.

Solution

Shade tolerant plants have lower photosynthetic rates and hence, lower growth rates. On the other hand these plants have larger photosynthetic unit size than the sun plants.

Asked in: NEET 2004

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