A discovery by Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists in Dallas provides new insights about the biological or circadian clock, how it regulates high water-use efficiency in some plants, and how others, including food plants, ...
Biotechnology
Nov 6, 2017
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Plant biologists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in collaboration with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), have reconstructed the evolutionary history of photosynthesis ...
Biotechnology
Oct 30, 2017
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University of Sydney and NASA researchers have developed a revolutionary new technique to image plant photosynthesis using satellite-based remote-sensing, with potential applications in climate change monitoring.
Environment
Oct 12, 2017
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Life on Earth is impossible without photosynthesis. It provides food and oxygen to all higher life forms and plays an important role in the climate system, regulating the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the Earth's atmosphere ...
Environment
Oct 12, 2017
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When engineers want to speed something up, they look for the "pinch points," the slowest steps in a system, and make them faster.
Biotechnology
Oct 11, 2017
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People avoid sunburn by applying sunscreen. But how do plants avoid getting burnt?
Biotechnology
Sep 21, 2017
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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at efficiencies far greater than plants. ...
Materials Science
Sep 18, 2017
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Political and agricultural leaders gathered at the University of Illinois today to see transformative work by Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) that has increased yields by 20 percent. The research project ...
Biotechnology
Sep 15, 2017
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Anyone who has taken high school biology knows that photosynthesis is the process by which plants convert sunlight into energy for growth.
Environment
Aug 25, 2017
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Earth-abundant, cheap metals are promising photocatalytic electrode materials in artificial photosynthesis. A team of Chinese scientists now reports that a thin layer of titania beneath hematite nanorods can boost the performance ...
Materials Science
Aug 24, 2017
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