In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration work, why they’re so critical for all life on Earth, and how they’re ...

Importantly, these imported chloroplasts displayed activity for two further days, during which time their host cells grew at an accelerated rate. This indicates that photosynthesis was indeed ...

"In plants, the enzymes that build cell walls need manganese to function. Manganese also plays a key role in photosynthesis," explains Professor Edgar Peiter, a plant researcher from MLU.

By mixing in chloroplast-implanted cells, the cells could produce their own oxygen via photosynthesis. In the study, the host cells showed accelerated growth rates for up to two days, but then ...

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

Photosynthesis is a biochemical process that plants, algae and certain bacteria use to turn light energy from the sun into food. The process—which occurs in special cellular structures called ...

However, the evolution of photosynthesis goes back even further, to the earliest cells that evolved the ability to capture light energy and use it to produce energy-rich molecules. When these ...

Photosynthesis occurs in chloroplasts found within cells. It is the chloroplasts that contain the green pigment chlorophyll which absorbs light. The plant uses this glucose to grow as well as make ...

Scientists from the University of Tokyo have successfully engineered animal cells capable of photosynthesis. The team used chloroplasts from schyzon, a species that thrives in volcanic hot springs ...

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 ...

Around 95% of plants use C3 photosynthesis, in which mesophyll cells—green spongy cells that live inside leaves—turn light, water, and carbon dioxide into plant-powering sugars. Despite its ...

Through photosynthesis, the particles of light power a cellular reaction that manufactures chemical energy (in the form of sugars), which is then passed around the food web in a complex dance of ...