While there are hopes of one day channeling photosynthetic outputs directly to our needs, many key details of the process, including the actual efficiency, are still incompletely known. Researchers at ...

Three billion years ago, light first zipped through chlorophyll within tiny reaction centers, the first step plants and photosynthetic bacteria take to convert light into food. Three billion years ago ...

Coccolithophores are a type of single-celled microalgae that fix CO2 into organic matter and precipitate calcium carbonate, ...

A team of scientists has taken us a step closer to unlocking the secrets of photosynthesis, and possibly to cleaner fuels. Their discovery describes the structure of a reaction center (from a ...

This study examined the effect of increasing chloroplastic superoxide dismutase (SOD), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), or glutathione reductase (GR) activity via plant transformation of cotton on the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We investigated the effect of photosynthetic electron transport and of the photosystem II (PSII) chlorophyll (Chl) antenna size on the rate of ...

This model may pave the way for eco-friendly fuels, as scientists mimic photosynthesis to use sunlight for producing solar fuels like hydrogen, methanol and synthetic petrol ...

Plants take advantage of quantum mechanics to harvest sunlight with near-perfect efficiency—though only roughly 2 percent of that capture sunlight ultimately gets stored as chemical energy. Now ...

Questions and Answers on Photosynthesis in Plants (Part 1) consists of 10 MCQs to make you understand the process of photosynthesis, its importance , role of chlorophyll in photosynthesis process, ...