Sentences with phrase «by photosynthesis into»

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When these nanocomposites were incorporated into leaf chloroplasts of living plants, the electron flow associated with photosynthesis was enhanced by 30 %.

Incorporation of CNTs enhanced electron flow associated with photosynthesis by 49 % in extracted chloroplasts and by 30 % in leaves of living plants, and incorporation of cerium oxide nanoparticles (nanoceria) into extracted chloroplasts significantly reduced concentrations of superoxide, a compound that is toxic to plants.

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.

Purdue University physicists are part of an international group using spinach to study the proteins involved in photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert the sun's energy into carbohydrates used to power cellular processes.

Although about 2 petagrams go into the oceans, another 1.1 to 2.2 petagrams — the missing sink — appears to vanish into the land, likely taken up by plants during photosynthesis.

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.

As a possible step toward the goal of doubling food production by 2050 to feed our expanding human population, researchers have transferred a key photosynthesis gene from a blue - green algae into a tobacco plant, according to a Nature news story.

Photosynthesis, the process by which plants, algae, and select bacteria convert the sun's light energy into chemical energy, takes place in a cellular organelle called the chloroplast.

Models suggest that incorporating the new enzymes into wheat could increase photosynthesis by up 20 % under some field conditions.

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.

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants convert energy from the sunlight into chemical energy in the form of sugars.

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.

«They allow us to look into relationships between SIF and the gross primary production (GPP)-- the amount of carbon fixed by plants through photosynthesis — at scales never explored before.»

According to University of British Columbia (UBC) research published this week in Scientific Reports, 30 per cent of the microbes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kabuno Bay grow by a type of photosynthesis that oxidizes (rusts) iron rather than converting water into oxygen like plants and algae.

Plants carry out photosynthesis by converting photons of light striking their chromophores into another form of energy known as an exciton.

Everyone who took high school biology learned that photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and select bacteria transform the Sun's energy into chemical energy during the daytime.

Some CO2 simply dissolves into the water, but the rest is taken up by phytoplankton during photosynthesis.

Peering deep into these proteins, Fleming and his colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley and at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the driving engine of a key step in photosynthesis, the process by which plants and some microorganisms convert water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight into oxygen and carbohydrates.

A new catalyst created by U of T Engineering researchers brings them one step closer to artificial photosynthesis — a system that, just like plants, would use renewable energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into stored chemical energy.

The system is inspired by the process of photosynthesis in plants to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen.

Most plants rely on photosynthesis, a process by which they transform energy from the sun into chemical energy that serves as a nutrient source.

Eventually, however, terrestrial red and green algae and the first lichens developed on land and the final big rise in oxygen may have been caused by the «greening of the continents from around 800 million years ago,» when these simple early lifeforms on land steadily spread and broke down rocks that sustained a higher rate of erosion and led to the release of more nutrients into the oceans that stimulated even more photosynthesis by more newly evolved algae as well as older cyanobacteria (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010).

It is naturally present in air and is absorbed by plants in photosynthesis, a chemical reaction that turns sunlight into food.

Photosynthesis is the process used by plants and organisms to convert light energy into stored chemical energy used to fuel their own needs.

JCAP is currently seeking additional funds to solve a key related challenge: How to transform hydrogen gas produced by artificial photosynthesis into a more useful fuel.

By following these isotopes into the food web, we can determine what fraction of a worm, a crayfish, or a fish was ultimately supported by terrestrial versus aquatic photosynthesiBy following these isotopes into the food web, we can determine what fraction of a worm, a crayfish, or a fish was ultimately supported by terrestrial versus aquatic photosynthesiby terrestrial versus aquatic photosynthesis.

But just to simplify, it is in these fireworks inside the mitochondria, where the oxygen we breathe may get a hold of an electron we ate that was pumped with energy by plants (thanks to photosynthesis), and transform that oxygen molecule into what's called superoxide, which can damage our delicate cellular machinery — oxidize our cellular machinery.

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.

Up to 9 % of the incoming short wave radiation (400 - 700nm) is incorporated into biomass by photosynthesis, admittedly requiring other nutrients in optimal abundance.

Some may say that there is no such solution, but why is it that we refuse to look at how nature of millions of years has flourished, by autotrophic life creating organic matter, by using photosynthesis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, while heterotrophic life takes this organic matter to release the energy it needs and return the oxygen and hydrogen back to water.

However, the carbon you exhale into the atmosphere was recently removed from the atmosphere by plants during photosynthesis, yielding a net change of zero.

There are a lot of hypothetical deliberations on where this «missing» CO2 is going: into increased terrestrial plant photosynthesis or soil absorption, dissolved into the ocean, where it is buffered chemically or converted by photosynthesis from phytoplankton, entering the food chain and possibly getting converted to carbonates that eventually end up on the ocean floor, into limestone through weathering or dissipated into space, etc..

Looking at the carbon fixation - organic material decomposition as a linked process, one sees that some of the carbon fixed by photosynthesis and incorporated into plant tissue is perhaps delayed from returning to the atmosphere until it is oxidised by decomposition or fire.

Radiocarbon is sequestered by trees via photosynthesis, moved to the ground, and finally released again into the atmosphere.

This 3D - printed concept wheel by tyre manufacturer Goodyear uses living moss to absorb moisture from the road, before converting it into oxygen through photosynthesis.

Although photosynthesis is an effective means of producing food, wood products, and carbon stored in vegetation, it is an inefficient means of converting the energy in the sun's rays into a form of non-food energy useable by people.

Through the process of photosynthesis, chlorophyll in plants captures the sun's energy by converting carbon dioxide from the air and water from the ground into carbohydrates — complex compounds composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.

In the short - term cycle, carbon in the atmosphere is turned into plant material by photosynthesis, then returned to the atmosphere by processes like animal digestion.

The device is inspired by the natural process of photosynthesis, in which plants produce energy by tapping on sunlight to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen.

The system is inspired by the process of photosynthesis in plants to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen.

JCAP is currently seeking additional funds to solve a key related challenge: How to transform hydrogen gas produced by artificial photosynthesis into a more useful fuel.

This indicates that replacing missing iron back into the ocean could stimulate phytoplankton based photosynthesis and generate improvements to the ocean ecosystem, while removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it is consumed by photosynthesis.

A potentially game - changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis has been achieved with the development of a system that can capture carbon dioxide emissions before they are vented into the atmosphere and then, powered by solar energy, convert that carbon dioxide into valuable chemical products, including biodegradable plastics, pharmaceutical drugs and even liquid fuels.

On land, vegetation absorbs CO2 by photosynthesis and converts it into organic matter.

The Carbon Cycle Photosynthesis takes CO 2 out of the atmosphere Cell Respiration by all organisms puts CO 2 into the atmosphere Transfer.

These parameters regulate processes such as plant carbon uptake by photosynthesis and how precipitation is separated into evapotranspiration to the atmosphere and river runoff.

In contrast, fossil fuels come from ancient photosynthesis, thus the carbon released by burning had been stored for ages and thus represents a net addition into the atmosphere.

The main natural sinks are the oceans and plants and other organisms that use photosynthesis to remove carbon from the atmosphere by incorporating it into biomass.

It ALL came in as «light» and was transformed into «heat» when absorbed by the Surface, into living things when photosynthesis transformed it into living things, and into potential energy when raised into the air by evaporation, and into wind and waves, and so on.