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

The study, recently published in PNAS, provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between microplastic exposure and photosynthesis across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.

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

Ammonia is a chemical essential to many agricultural and industrial processes, but it’s mode of production comes with an ...

Ammonia is a chemical essential to many agricultural and industrial processes, but its mode of production comes with an ...

The researchers used two catalysts, both based in transition metals, iridium and molybdenum for the experiment.

When the sun rises, these pores open and the plants absorb carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the atmosphere, which they need, in addition to sunlight and water, for photosynthesis. At the same time ...

These minuscule fragments of degrading plastic now suffuse our air, our soil, the food we eat and the water we drink ... reveals how microplastics hinder photosynthesis across a wide range ...

This intermediate compound was the missing piece of the artificial photosynthesis puzzle: the researchers recorded and analyzed in real-time the mechanism that ultimately breaks down the water into ...

This intermediate compound was the missing piece of the artificial photosynthesis puzzle: the researchers recorded and analyzed in real-time the mechanism that ultimately breaks down the water ...

Around 95 percent of plants use C3 photosynthesis, in which mesophyll cells — green spongy cells that live inside leaves — turn light, water and carbon dioxide (CO2) into plant-powering sugars.