Sentences with phrase «efficiency of photosynthesis»

Determining the relative efficiency of photosynthesis and photovoltaics is not a simple problem

And yet this wonderful solution is still woefully inefficient; while the theoretical efficiency of photosynthesis is about 11 %, in reality a variety of factors limit it to not more than 6 % /.

In a 2016 article in Science, one of us (Stephen Long) and colleagues at other institutions demonstrated that improving the efficiency of photosynthesis in tobacco increased its growth by 20 percent.

Editor's note (01/05/18): This article has been updated to clarify that the study by Stephen Long and others published in Science in 2016 involved improving the efficiency of photosynthesis in tobacco plants.

This means that it may be possible to mix and match the regulatory components of light harvesting from different clades of photosynthetic organisms to fine - tune the efficiency of photosynthesis.»

«By manipulating photoprotection in plants, it may be possible to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, and one potential outgrowth of that is higher crop productivity,» said Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging and a UC Berkeley professor of plant and microbial biology.

Professor Martin A. J. Parry of the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) said: «Improving the efficiency of photosynthesis — the way crops turn carbon dioxide in our atmosphere into everything we can eat — may seem ambitious but for us it offers the best opportunity for producing the scale of change in crop yield that we need to feed a growing global population in a changing world climate.»

Professor Neil Hunter from the University of Sheffield's Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and lead author of the study, said: «Photosynthesis is the major source of energy for all life on Earth, so it is important to learn the limits of this process so we can understand how to increase spectral coverage and to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis.»

One latent possibility to solve this problem is increasing the efficiency of photosynthesis.

A team of researchers announced today that they have genetically modified wheat to increase the efficiency of photosynthesis.

In plants like wheat and tobacco, the supply of these five - carbon molecules often runs short, limiting the efficiency of photosynthesis.

It's one of the holy grails of energy; coming up with a material for capturing the energy of the sun which can beat the efficiency of photosynthesis.

Increasing the efficiency of photosynthesis — a revolution in «green manufacturing» — might offer a biological solution to many of the current problems facing Earth and our dependency on fossil fuels.

«Enhancing the efficiency of photosynthesis in C3 Plants» 5th Pan-American Conference on Plants and Bioenergy Santa Fe, New Mexico

By boosting the expression of three genes involved in NPQ, they showed that NPQ turned off more quickly, and the efficiency of photosynthesis in the shade was higher.

They used tobacco plants in field trials to confirm that the efficiency of photosynthesis can be increased to produce higher yields of plants, something that many scientists once thought impossible.

More CO2greatly increases the efficiency of photosynthesis in plants and makes land plants more drought - resistant.