Plants, algae and other photosynthetic organisms remove carbon dioxide from the air, incorporating it into starches in a process known as carbon fixation. In green algae, which contribute up to a third of global carbon fixation, ...
Biotechnology
Sep 12, 2019
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This is how Manajit Hayer-Hartl from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany, sums up her thoughts on a new analysis that the global abundance of plants' carbon dioxide converting enzyme is an order of magnitude ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 26, 2019
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Photosynthesis is a fundamental biological process by which plants use light energy for growth. Most life forms on Earth are directly or indirectly dependent on photosynthesis. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2019
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The idea of eating aquatic plants might sound unappetizing at first.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 18, 2024
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Maize is one of the world's most widely grown crops and is essential to global food security. But like other plants, its growth and productivity can be limited by the slow activity of Rubisco, the enzyme responsible for carbon ...
Agriculture
May 28, 2024
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One of the most abundant plant proteins on earth, rubisco may be coming to a plate near you soon.
Biotechnology
Jun 30, 2023
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A Newcastle University study has for the first time shown that machine learning can predict the biological properties of the most abundant enzyme on Earth—Rubisco.
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 30, 2022
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A research group consisting of Associate Professor Fukayama Hiroshi (Kobe University, Graduate School of Agricultural Science) and Professor Matsumura Hiroyoshi (Ritsumeikan University) et al. have succeeded in greatly increasing ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 15, 2020
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Research led by scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) could lead to major improvements in crop production.
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2020
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A team led by Prof. Zhou Congzhao and Prof. Chen Yuxing from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) reported the crystal structures of Raf1 from cyanobacteria Anabaena ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 8, 2020
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