Sentences with phrase «during photosynthesis»

Because of methane's greater greenhouse potency, the warming potential of the emissions measured during the second period greatly exceeded the potential cooling produced by the uptake of carbon dioxide during photosynthesis.

It is produced during photosynthesis in plants, for example, and its production in skin cells has been linked to aging and cancer development.

The process is primarily mediated by plants which absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis; some of this carbon is eventually stored as soil organic carbon.

In addition, they release water into the air during photosynthesis.

Plants capture energy during photosynthesis and that energy is then passed on to you when you eat plants or animals that have eaten plants.

Plants (and some bacteria) release oxygen during photosynthesis, the process they use to change water and carbon dioxide into sugar they can use for food.

In return the plant serves the fungus food made during photosynthesis.

For example during photosynthesis CO2 is consumed causing pH to rise.

They do occur naturally as a plant breaks down nitrogen during photosynthesis, though they are also known to be commercially made and used in the preparation of some foods.

This is an important state to understand because it's key to the initial charge separation, or the moment energy conversion begins during photosynthesis.

One of these — carbon - 14 — is taken up by trees during photosynthesis and is «fixed» in the tree's annual growth ring.

Place the lamp outside and the algae generates electricity during photosynthesis; it gets stored in a battery and released when needed.

The team then used previous satellite estimates to calculate the gross carbon productivity — the amount of carbon incorporated into organic matter during photosynthesis — of oceans across the entire globe.

But trees also release CO2 back into the air when plant matter breaks down the sugars they make during photosynthesis.

But the fluorescence map, an unexpected secondary capability, provides a more direct measure of carbon fluxes: the amount mopped up by plants during photosynthesis or released during respiration.

C3 plants plants that produce a three - carbon compound during photosynthesis, including most trees and agricultural crops such as rice, wheat, soybeans, potatoes, and vegetables

In radiocarbon dating terms this makes the atmosphere appear older, which is reflected in the tissues of plants taking in CO2 during photosynthesis, and their products such as cottons.

These trees shed a lot of water during photosynthesis, with associated high energy losses.

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.

To get around this, two MIT chemists have devised a method of hoarding solar energy that functionally mimics what plants do during photosynthesis.

OCO - 2 will also closely monitor the carbon uptake of plants by measuring the weak fluorescence that is produced during photosynthesis as plants» chlorophyll pigments absorb light to capture energy and subsequently re-emit photons at longer wavelengths.

When water - splitting naturally occurs during photosynthesis inside the leaves of plants, chlorophyll acts as a catalyst for this reaction as protons and electrons are extracted from water.

Observe the gas released during photosynthesis in this brilliant activity from KC Adventures.

Vegetation can affect climate and weather patterns due to the release of water vapor during photosynthesis.

Basta kills plants by «choking» them on the ammonia they produce during photosynthesis.

This allows the organisms to convert some of the carbon dioxide normally used to make sugars and starches during photosynthesis into ethylene.

Photochemical reactions during photosynthesis enable plants to convert solar energy into chemical energy that is stored as sugars in the plants» biomass.

The corals eat but don't digest these single - celled photosynthetic algae, which then reside inside the corals and feed them the carbon sugars created during photosynthesis.

And the satellite will also spy on plants» carbon uptake by measuring the weak fluorescence that is produced by chlorophyll during photosynthesis.

Inspiration for the new catalyst came from nature; Nocera studied the chain of processes that take place during photosynthesis, such as how plants use the energy from sunlight to rearrange water's chemical bonds.

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.

The overall entropy of the universe increases during photosynthesis as the sunlight dissipates, even as the plant prevents itself from decaying by maintaining an orderly internal structure.

Biologist Michael Seibert and his colleagues found they could activate hydrogenase during photosynthesis by withholding sulfate.

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

Billions of planktonic organisms, too tiny to be seen with the naked eye, make this valuable service possible: When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in seawater, various species convert it to organic carbon and other organic components during photosynthesis.

The team used algae that had been genetically modified to carry mutations that enable the cells to minimise the amount of electric charge dissipated non-productively during photosynthesis.

I got hooked six years ago after the spectacular experiment by Graham Fleming showed the existence of quantum coherence during photosynthesis in super-chilled green sulphur bacteria.

Compared to forests, croplands are less efficient in transpiration, a daytime process where water evaporates from leaves during photosynthesis and cools the air.

This works because during photosynthesis, trees take up carbon from the atmosphere and lay this carbon down as plant organic material in the form of rings, providing a snapshot of the atmospheric composition of that time.

The below graph shows (a) how the «NPP», the difference between the amount of vegetation CO2 absorption during photosynthesis and vegetation CO2 emissions during respiration, decreases as the temperature goes up, indicating a decline in both general biomass and soil moisture, as shown in (b).

Likewise when ocean concentrations of H + ions increase, they more readily bond to the bicarbonate and carbonate ions to minimize the drop in pH and form more CO2, which can be quickly utilized during photosynthesis.

While 50 % of the sequestered carbon formed during photosynthesis is respired before sinking into the dark depths, a tremendous pool of dissolved organic carbon has been created that may not be respired for decades, centuries or millennia and slowly contributes to the pool of DIC at various depths and locations (Giorgiou 2002).

The principle of using d13C to separate land and ocean components of the carbon budget relies on the fractionation during photosynthesis by C3 plants, which discriminates against 13C.

C3 plants — which include more than 95 percent of the plant species on earth, including trees — form molecules of three carbon atoms during photosynthesis, and they tend to photosynthesize more as atmospheric CO2 rises.

The fractionation of carbon isotopes during photosynthesis causes the carbon products used to synthesize leaf tissue to be relatively depleted in the heavier 13C isotope [Farquhar et al., 1989].

Rice production is also a methane - intensive activity, because root systems in rice plants secrete carbohydrates during photosynthesis.

Plants Pack a Punch on Precipitation During photosynthesis, plants release water vapor into the air.

The basis of the new technology is a genetically - modified algae that carries mutations that lower the amount of electric charge released nonproductively during photosynthesis, so less was going to waste.