what are the products of the light-dependent equation
For the sake of consistency with most textbooks and for ease of stoichiometry (making the numbers of atoms add up), we shall skip this and continue to state glucose as the end product. So far (in the light-dependent reactions) however, we have only produced ATP and NADPH. The subsequent reactions leading to the formation of glucose do not directly involve the harnessing of light energy (that has already been done to produce ATP and NADPH), and are therefore called light-independent.