<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs attention from an expert in Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology or Botany . The specific problem is: The title and scope of this article have issues . See the talk page for details . WikiProject Biology, WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology or WikiProject Botany may be able to help recruit an expert . (April 2017) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs attention from an expert in Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology or Botany . The specific problem is: The title and scope of this article have issues . See the talk page for details . WikiProject Biology, WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology or WikiProject Botany may be able to help recruit an expert . (April 2017) </Td> </Tr> <P> The light - independent reactions, or dark reactions, of photosynthesis are chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and other compounds into glucose . These reactions occur in the stroma, the fluid - filled area of a chloroplast outside the thylakoid membranes . These reactions take the products (ATP and NADPH) of light - dependent reactions and perform further chemical processes on them . </P> <P> These reactions are closely coupled to the thylakoid electron transport chain as reducing power provided by NADPH produced in the photosystem I is actively needed . The process of photorespiration, also known as C2 cycle, is also coupled to the dark reactions, as it results from an alternative reaction of the RuBisCO enzyme, and its final byproduct is also another glyceraldehyde - 3 - P . </P>

Where do the light independent reactions take place