Chinese researchers have developed a technology that sheds light on how the three-dimensional (3D) organization of plant ...

Nanotechnology is being explored to improve crop tolerance to drought and heat. By enhancing water use, nutrient delivery, ...

During oxygenic photosynthesis, light energy transfers electrons from water (H2O) taken up by plant roots to CO2 to produce carbohydrates. In this transfer, the CO2 is "reduced," or receives ...

Photosynthesis, the natural process of converting sunlight energy into chemical energy and generating molecular oxygen, is a ...

We'll also explain which non-plant organisms use photosynthesis to survive and how unusual plants like cacti turn everyday bits of nature into food. Photosynthesis: A Chemical and Biological ...

Plants have small pores on the underside of their leaves, known as stomata. When the sun rises, these pores open and the plants absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, which they need, in ...

In a review in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant ...

In terms of importance, cellular biologist Geoffrey McFadden wrote in a study published in Plant Physiology that “the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis must rank just after the origin of life itself.” ...

“Sometimes the experiments have been done with leaves and plant parts, and we haven’t measured the photosynthesis in a normal environmental situation,” she said. “We need to drill down on ...

Scientists discovered a stretch of DNA in both C3 plants, like wheat and soybeans, and C4 plants, like corn and sorghum, that is responsible for optimizing C4 plant photosynthesis and making them ...

A new study, published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, reveals how microplastics hinder photosynthesis across a wide range of plant species—including crucia ...

Their work revealed that microplastics could reduce plant photosynthesis by as much as 12 percent on average. In turn, the researchers estimate that will cause a 4 to 14 percent yield loss for ...