Sentences with phrase «by photosynthesis for»

Mycorrhizal fungi live in the roots of host plants, where they exchange sugars that plants produce by photosynthesis for mineral nutrients that fungi absorb from the soil.

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This means that the energy consumption and carbon footprint of marijuana growers would go way down, as the light the plants need for photosynthesis could be provided more naturally by the sun.

Part of the problem is that the benefits of better plant growth, thanks to higher carbon dioxide concentrations (plants use CO2 for photosynthesis) are more than offset by the impact of higher temperatures and differing precipitation.

Plankton plays an important role in the ocean's carbon cycle by removing half of all CO2 from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and storing it deep under the sea — isolated from the atmosphere for centuries.

If plant life does exist on a planet like Kepler - 186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red - wavelength photons, making for a color palette that's very different than the greens on Earth.

To obtain sufficient moisture for photosynthesis and growth, redwoods reach into the air with leaves shaped like baseball mitts and capture the fog that rolls in by night and languishes through most mornings.

Its discovery upended one of biology's core tenets: That all life essentially depends on the energy of the sun, either by using sunlight for photosynthesis or by munching photosynthesizing organisms.

In the most recent (December 2003) issue of Progress in Oceanography, researchers suggest this whopping increase was caused by a sudden influx of dead algae rich in carotenoids, pigments used by some plants for photosynthesis.

For this reason methanol fuel cells will be used, where the combination of methanol and oxygen produces water and carbon dioxide as a waste product (note that the carbon footprint in this case is neutral in that the methanol will be produced by photosynthesis, removing CO2 from the atmosphere).

SeaWiFS, on board the OrbView 2 (aka SeaStar) satellite measures the wavelengths of light reflected by phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants) and algae that use chlorophyll for photosynthesis.

In a recreation of Theodore Engelmann's 1883 experiment, in which he discovered that blue and red light were most favorable for photosynthesis, a skylight in the lobby will admit light that will be refracted by a prism and lenses intended to represent the optics of a microscope.

Nitrogen helps plants produce proteins, including the key molecules that control photosynthesis, the process by which the sun's energy is captured and converted into the carbon compounds that are the raw material for growth.

«Marine ecosystems everywhere to the north will be increasingly starved for nutrients, leading to less primary production (photosynthesis) by phytoplankton, which form the base of ocean food chains.»

The iron minerals have special qualities — They absorb harmful ultraviolet radiation, but the part of the sunlight needed for photosynthesis can still be used by organisms.

Professor Henry said photosynthesis — the process by which plants converted sunlight into energy for growth and produce oxygen — was arguably the most important biological process on earth.

The researchers engineered a strain in which a Synechococcus gene normally turned on during photosynthesis signals its activity by switching on the gene for luciferase, an enzyme from another bacterium that drives a light - emitting chemical reaction.

Some species also respond to warming by fast - forwarding through their life cycles, narrowing the window for photosynthesis and carbon uptake.

Professor Colin Osborne, lead author of the study and Associate Director of the University's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, said: «Photosynthesis powers most life on Earth because it converts solar energy into sugars which are used by plants to grow.

Lead author Nigel D'Souza, then a postdoctoral researcher at Lamont, discovered the phytoplankton response to oil seeps while on a ship in the Gulf of Mexico monitoring chlorophyll fluorescence — energy that is emitted as light by compounds inside phytoplankton cells used for photosynthesis.

Exciton diffusion is also a basic mechanism underlying photosynthesis: Plants absorb energy from photons, and this energy is transferred by excitons to areas where it can be stored in chemical form for later use in supporting the plant's metabolism.

The weak but nevertheless detectable SIF signal emerges naturally on sunlight - exposed leaves, when chlorophyll molecules are excited by absorbed photons, and is a proxy for plant photosynthesis.

To make up for having their roots exposed, some lineages adopted a kind of water - saving photosynthesis called crassulacean acid metabolism that likely helped them survive only on fog and rain; it increased their diversification rate by a remarkable 20.3 %.

Titanium is not an essential nutrient for plants, Raliya says, but boosts light absorption by increasing chlorophyll content in the leaves and promotes photosynthesis, properties Biswas» lab discovered while creating solar cells.

Only when we know when and where certain nutrients are available for plankton growth we can also estimate how much carbon the plankton can bind by photosynthesis and thus remove from the atmosphere.»

His development of a method for stable transformation of land plant chloroplast genomes, once thought to be impossible, established the field of chloroplast genome engineering in higher plants and has led to an explosion of research concerning the chloroplast genome's role in photosynthesis, functional analysis of plastid genes by reverse genetics, and mechanisms of plastid gene regulation.

In addition, the light emitted by red dwarfs may be too red in color for Earth - type plant life to perform photosynthesis efficiently.

This work is supported by the Materials Project Predictive Modeling Center and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis through the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, under Contract No.

A crucial piece of the puzzle behind nature's ability to split the water molecule during photosynthesis that could help advance the development of artificial photosynthesis for clean, green and renewable energy has been provided by an international collaboration of scientists led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Photosynthetically available radiation (PAR) refers to the spectral range (wave band) of solar radiation from 400 - 700 nanometers (the visible wavelengths and the spectrum used by plants for photosynthesis) that is absorbed by the chlorophyll molecule.

For example, carbon dioxide, the dominant form of carbon in the atmosphere and associated with climate change, is used by plants to generate energy via photosynthesis.

Send a message to the Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis by using the form below.

The 7:30 p.m. public talk, «Living by Photosynthesis,» is set for the Samuel H. Smith Center for Undergraduate Education, Room 203.

The Solar Energy Research Center, which is expected to be complete by the end of 2014, will have approximately 40,000 square feet of space to house the northern branch of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, among other smaller labs.

Moreover, the light emitted by red dwarfs may be too red in color for Earth - type plant life to perform photosynthesis efficiently.

Prof. Su's current research fields include the design, the synthesis, the property study and the molecular engineering of nanostructures and highly organized and hierarchically self - assembled porous materials, bio-integrated living and bio-inspired materials including leaf - like materials by the immobilization of living organisms and biomaterials for catalysis, photocatalysis, CO2 reduction and water splitting, artificial photosynthesis, nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, energy storage and conversion, cell therapy and biomedical applications.

By combining biocompatible light - capturing nanowire arrays with select bacterial populations, a potentially game - changing new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win / win situation for the environment: solar - powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide.

In 2007, some interesting papers were also published about the likely visual wavelengths or colors of light that may be used for photosynthesis by «alien plants» living under stars bluer or redder than our own Sun.

Bringing everything together, Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Laureate for Chemistry and our Past President, talks on BBC World News about the future of renewable energy and how advances in harvesting the energy of the sun, such as organic solar cells and artificial photosynthesis, are being inspired by nature.

Organisms like plants and algae use sunlight for photosynthesis to create oxygen and other important by - products.

For example, photosynthesis is the process by which a plant uses sunlight and oxygen to produce chlorophyll.

«LED production has evolved to now make it possible to use LEDs that emit the proper wavelengths of light needed by corals for photosynthesis.»

Secular Animist: «I'd point out that humanity has always depended on what you call a «low quality» energy source for all of our food — which is solar energy transformed into chemical energy by photosynthesis.»

I'd point out that humanity has always depended on what you call a «low quality» energy source for all of our food — which is solar energy transformed into chemical energy by photosynthesis.

Allowing for that falling on the oceans, and further decline due to angle of incidence as distance from equator increases, less the amount required by vegetation for photosynthesis, we are left with how much energy for conversion of solar radiation to heat / electricity / catalytic reaction to other fuels?

I'll be talking with three scientists working to shake America out of its long, and bipartisan, slumber party on energy innovation and get to work — the physics Nobelist Burton Richter, Martin Hoffert, a professor emeritus of physics at New York University, and Nathan Lewis, a chemist at the California Institute of Technology who heads the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, one of three «innovation hubs» created (so far) by the Department of Energy.

There are also proposals for forestation schemes which suggest photosynthesis supported by suitable irrigation is capable of sequestering from 5 tC / ha / year to 25 tC / ha / year and inbetween, the last even with a TED conversation.

The reason is because there are two pathways for that carbon that gets fixed by photosynthesis.

And about 100 GtC / yr is reduced by photosynthesis, and subsequently oxidised by respiration and combustion, a process that again has been balanced for millennia.

The building will also house the lab's programs in the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, a Department of Energy hub led by the California Institute of Technology, according to lab officials.

What we do get, is real invisible heat from the Sun which comes to us as thermal infrared which in the real world is how heat is transferred by radiation, and we get white light without which we would have no life on Earth because the blue wavelength is essential for photosynthesis.