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While extreme changes in temperature may decrease photosynthesis and phytoplankton reproduction, slighter temperature increase may actually improve photosynthesis,» he explains.
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Computer analyses of the way plant leaves intercept sunlight have revealed other ways to improve photosynthesis.
Understanding how this signaling pathway functions would allow for development of strategies to protect crops against climatic change and to improve photosynthesis so as to generate biofuels and other valuable products.
Improving photosynthesis itself could dramatically boost yields.
I approve of Michael Le Page's «Turbocharge our plants» plan to introduce improved photosynthesis genes not only into our food...
«As part of the RIPE project, we are screening a wide range of species from across the globe, and aim to identify variation that will enable improving photosynthesis and biomass production in rice, cassava and soybean.»
«This is a relatively new and underappreciated area of exploration when it comes to understanding and improving photosynthesis.»
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.
The drought sensitive cultivar» 1110» benefited from the AM fungi under drought conditions, resulting in increased biomass, improved photosynthesis and improved nitrogen - use.
Photosynthetic microbes offer other clues to improving photosynthesis in plants, the researchers report.
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A rigid rice plant allows sunlight to reach leaves on even the lowest parts of the plant, improving photosynthesis and therefore grain production; it also allows plants to be placed in closer proximity without interfering with each other's growth.
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.
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.
The goal was to improve artificial photosynthesis, which can aid food production.
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.
In your Instant Expert guide to photosynthesis (2 February) you discuss tweaking photosynthesis to improve crop yields.
The team improved the plant's water - use - efficiency — the ratio of carbon dioxide entering the plant to water escaping — by 25 percent without significantly sacrificing photosynthesis or yield in real - world field trials.
«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.»
This has great potential to improve our global data - driven estimates of photosynthesis and other fluxes between land and atmosphere that are relevant for the Earth System» says Martin Jung from MPI - BGC.
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 photosynPhotosynthesis 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 photosynthesisphotosynthesis.»
While the improved organisms excel at photosynthesis in a lab setting, they're ill prepared to compete with other bacteria.
«It presents a promising target for research into techniques that could help improve plant photosynthesis and crop yields.»
Berkeley Lab scientists at DOE's Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis are working to improve systems that efficiently convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into fuel.
Photosynthesis worked wonders for the mice exposed to light because their conditions improved.
As for the cyanobacteria, Dr. Woo explained that it dissipated within 24 hours, but the hearts continued to improve for up to four weeks due to its photosynthesis.
Warming temperatures, increased atmospheric CO2, and longer growing seasons provide opportunities for increased photosynthesis, thereby improving forest growth and productivity (Ehleringer and Cerling 1995; Joyce and Birdsey 1995; Waring and Running 2007; NPS 2010).
Adding chlorofyll fluorescence to vegetation models provides means to understand photosynthesis better at a global scale and improve its modelling.
Improve Solar Technology - Design a Biomimic of Photosynthesis Carbon Nanotubes Could Make Artificial Photosynthesis Possible Key Green Algal Genome Provides Insights into Carbon Capture, Better Biofuels Production
Armed with their improved catalyst, the Toronto team is now working to build their artificial photosynthesis system at pilot scale.
Berkeley Lab scientists at DOE's Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis are working to improve systems that efficiently convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into fuel.
a) Anabel Robredo, Usue Pérez - López, Hector Sainz de la Maza, Begoña González - Moro, Maite Lacuesta, Amaia Mena - Petite, Alberto Muñoz - Rueda: Elevated CO2 alleviates the impact of drought on barley improving water status by lowering stomatal conductance and delaying its effects on photosynthesis, Environmental and Experimental Botany, (April 2007) Volume 59, Issue 3, pp. 252 — 263.
Adding chlorofyll fluorescence to vegetation models provides means to understand photosynthesis better at a global scale and improve its modelling.
The seeds would be designed to stimulate greater photosynthesis, improve root structures, and enhance other characteristics so the transgenic corn can yield more kernels with less water.
This work, funded through the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, sheds light on the chemical structure and dynamics in photovoltaic materials, and could lead to improved designs that maximize solar energy conversion.