Sentences with phrase «efficient photosynthesis»

There isn't enough surface area on Earth for 8 % efficient photosynthesis to sequester our carbon pollution.

China is part of the global project to develop C4 rice — designed to achieve more efficient photosynthesis and, potentially, 50 % higher productivity.

This plant may look like an ordinary tobacco plant, but on the inside it was engineered to express bacteria proteins which helps it perform more efficient photosynthesis.

Efficient photosynthesis depends upon the regulated assembly and disassembly of micro - compartments, composed of super-complexes and electron carriers, at the thylakoid membrane.

Microbial mats could float near the water's surface for efficient photosynthesis when a star is calm, then sink to a safe depth when a flare hits.

These include increased cold tolerance and more efficient photosynthesis, which leads to greater biomass production and even more oil.

A principle limitation of efficient photosynthesis is that organisms absorb more light in full sunlight than they can use effectively, thus plants have evolved a variety of mechanisms for photoacclimiation, including a mechanism described in the current new findings.

«Calredoxin, a novel protein for promoting efficient photosynthesis.»

«Newly discovered algal enzyme for more efficient photosynthesis, better crops.»

An optical lens helps angle the light to reach the sides and bases of your growing plants for more efficient photosynthesis.

Not exact matches

This research aims to improve rice's photosynthesis to make it more productive and efficient in using resources like water, light, and nutrients.

RED LIGHT Researchers used the red light emitted by phytoplankton to track how efficient the organisms are at photosynthesis.

Using the principles of photosynthesis, scientists create more efficient storage for solar power.

But this solution of cobalt oxide could be a major step forward in finding an efficient catalyst for photosynthesis.

In most plants, the enzyme works very slowly, but the algal version made the plant more efficient at photosynthesis and made it grow faster, researchers report in Nature.

For many crops more carbon dioxide means a rise in the rate of photosynthesis and, therefore, in growth; and with increased carbon dioxide some plants» use of water is more efficient, according to studies done in conventional glass greenhouses.

Two of the most efficient were Rubisco from plants known as Aegilops cylindrica (jointed goatgrass) and Hordeum vulgare (barley), which both showed promising Rubisco catalytic properties that should be explored in the context of improving photosynthesis, and ultimately grain yield, in wheat.

«Understanding the evolutionary trajectory that nature used to create oxygen production in photosynthesis is one component that will help scientists design an efficient and effective system.

They do this for the same reason they shun green light: to make photosynthesis, which prefers blue and red light, as efficient as possible.

Though the disc shape makes the leaf less efficient at photosynthesis, Simon says that the benefits of attracting bats outweigh this energetic cost: bats are good pollinators, and their large home range means they can take pollen to plants far apart from each other, and so help their reproduction, he says.

«Solar - to - fuel system recycles CO2 to make ethanol and ethylene: Efficient, light - powered production of fuel via artificial photosynthesis.»

McFadden agrees: «If we could understand how photosynthesis is so efficient at transforming sunlight into energy and re-create that artificially, then today's poorly performing solar cells would be a thing of the past.»

The researchers are exploring how this protein functions at the crossroad of calcium - and redox - dependent reactions to promote efficient oxygenic photosynthesis.

Thereby Calredoxin functions at the crossroad of calcium - and redox - dependent reactions to promote efficient oxygenic photosynthesis.

Yields of many crops could be increased if photosynthesis could be engineered to become more efficient.

PASADENA >> Caltech researchers have produced an «artificial leaf» that uses sunlight to generate fuel free of carbon emissions in a process 10 times more efficient than photosynthesis.

The goal of this study was to strike a careful balance between the contradictory needs for efficient energy conversion and chemically sensitive electronic components to develop a viable system of artificial photosynthesis to generate clean fuel.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

While the algal rubisco makes the photosynthesis more efficient, the tobacco plant wasn't completely engineered to mimic the whole process the bacteria use.

While the photosynthesis is more efficient, the plants themselves grew significantly slower.

This photosynthesis spawns a productive, efficient system in which a large energy source is available to other life forms.

Where Quantum Physics Meets Photosynthesis Recent experimental results suggest that quantum - mechanical coherence plays a role in efficient energy transfer in photoactive complexes.

This development, however, shows that highly efficient, stable artificial photosynthesis is possible.

I would be suprised if so much as 1 % of incoming SW radiation was incorporated into biomass (1 % is about as efficient as the most efficient land crops are at photosynthesis, net of respiration).

Now I quite agree and efficient mitigation is certainly forests being allowed to grow back and more generally photosynthesis being favored over rotting by all means.

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

But photosynthesis is only a few percents efficient (often just 1 %), and then the refining process to harvest the crops and then extract their sugars and turn them into liquid fuel further reduces efficiency.

By looking at how photosynthesis occurs in plants, scientists have identified why the process is so efficient.

Creating an efficient artificial version of photosynthesis would realize the dream of solar power as the ultimate green and renewable source of electrical energy.

Photosynthesis just isn't all that efficient.

Researchers in Canada have demonstrated a new photochemical diode artificial photosynthesis system that can enable efficient, unassisted overall pure water splitting without using any sacrificial reagent.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

Using sunlight to drive chemical reactions, such as artificial photosynthesis, could soon become much more efficient thanks to nanomaterials.

Researchers find a more efficient way to harness photosynthesis to create solar energy.

Natural photosynthesis has been around for billions of years, but it's not very efficient at turning sunlight into energy - dense chemicals we can use for fuel.

Researchers at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) report the development of the first complete, efficient, safe, integrated solar - driven system — an «artificial leaf» — for splitting water to produce hydrogen.

There are two primary externalities that result from our emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — 1) an enhancement of the greenhouse effect, which results in an alteration of the energy flow in the earth's climate and a general tendency to warm the global average surface temperature, and 2) an enhancement of the rate of photosynthesis in plants and a general tendency to result in more efficient growth and an overall healthier condition of vegetation (including crops).

The initial focus of JCAP research was tackling the efficient splitting of water in the photosynthesis process.

The goal of this study was to strike a careful balance between the contradictory needs for efficient energy conversion and chemically sensitive electronic components to develop a viable system of artificial photosynthesis to generate clean fuel.

Ensia reports on recent advances in the lab of Daniel Nocera at Hravard in artificial photosynthesis, really an efficient and marketable way to convert diffuse, intermittent store solar energy into storable, highly combustible hydrogen.