Sentences with phrase «of plant photosynthesis»

Nearly half of the plant species using this pathway [C4] are tropical grasses... Finally the CAM pathway of plant photosynthesis is found in about 10 of all plant species....

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Quantum physics governs the universe on incredibly small scales — including at the level of molecules inside chloroplasts, the structures inside plants where photosynthesis happens.

Photosynthesis — the process plants use to turn light into energy — is especially something of an enigma.

How many times did it take for the plants to get the process of photosynthesis correct?

So, God is our Environer, God is «the sunshine of the soul», providing for us what the sun and earth, etc. provide for the plants via photosynthesis.

Since our readers are looking for experiments to try with their 5 - 12 year olds, we feel that making a parallel comparison of «breathing» or respiration for plants and humans helps children to better understand the process of photosynthesis at a younger age.

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.

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

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.

Some 71 percent of the plant cells and 84 percent of the fungal cells showed signs of life afterward, and about half the cells were able to restart normal photosynthesis after rehydration.

This means that the energy consumption and carbon footprint of marijuana growers would go way down, as the light the plants need for photosynthesis could be provided more naturally by the sun.

The efficiency of natural photosynthesis is limited by light - absorbing pigments in plants or bacteria, he says.

«In these environments that are dominated by marine plants, photosynthesis and respiration cause large differences in CO2 concentrations and the addition of anthropogenic carbon make these day - to - night differences even larger than they would be without that extra carbon,» said George Waldbusser, an Oregon State marine ecologist and co-author on the study, who serves as Pacella's Ph.D. adviser.

Part of the problem is that the benefits of better plant growth, thanks to higher carbon dioxide concentrations (plants use CO2 for photosynthesis) are more than offset by the impact of higher temperatures and differing precipitation.

The simulations suggested that the indirect effects of increased CO2 on net primary productivity (how much carbon dioxide vegetation takes in during photosynthesis minus how much carbon dioxide the plants release during respiration) are large and variable, ranging from less than 10 per cent to more than 100 per cent of the size of direct effects.

Nanobionic Leaf: DNA - coated carbon nanotubes (top) incorporated inside chloroplasts in the leaves of living plants (middle) boost plant photosynthesis.

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

Possessing chlorophyll and engaging in photosynthesis are often given as important defining traits of plants.

While chloroplasts host all of the biochemical machinery needed for photosynthesis, little is known about how to engineer chloroplasts extracted from plants for long - term, stable solar energy harnessing.

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.

A long - standing puzzle in ocean photosynthesis was why phytoplankton failed to grow fast in parts of the Pacific Ocean; after all, the microscopic plants have access to plenty of carbon dioxide thanks to upwelling water.

However, some plant species have abandoned photosynthesis, instead feeding off the roots of host fungi such as mushrooms and mould.

The BPEC cell developed by the researchers is based on the naturally occurring process of photosynthesis in plants, in which light drives electrons that produce storable chemical energetic molecules, that are the fuels of all cells in the animal and plant worlds.

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.

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.

She and other experts note there is an exception for certain types of plants such as corn, which access CO2 for photosynthesis in a unique way.

Increased levels of CO2 accelerate plant growth, which causes more absorption of CO2 through photosynthesis.

«A higher concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere would aid photosynthesis, which in turn contributes to increased plant growth,» Rep. Lamar Smith (R — Texas) wrote in an op - ed last year.

Among other things, they have seen regularly recurring platelets in each cell, which they believe are parts of chloroplasts, the organelles within plant cells where photosynthesis takes place.

These organelles, which perform photosynthesis in green plants, are descendants of formerly free - living cyanobacteria, which are prokaryotes that lack an RNAi system.

The technique could also be modified for microscopy, allowing imaging of photosynthesis inside the plant cells.

«Innovative system images photosynthesis to provide picture of plant health: Crop imager could enable agricultural machinery that automatically responds to stressed plants.»

This form of photosynthesis, known as crassulacean acid metabolism or CAM, has evolved over millions of years, building water - saving characteristics in plants such as Kalanchoë, orchid and pineapple.

Because photosynthesis can vary from plant to plant and even from leaf to leaf, many images would have to be acquired to get a picture of overall crop growth.

There's oxygen in our atmosphere that is the result of photosynthesis, but if that's what they're looking for, they could have found out that plants covered the Earth a billion, 2 billion years ago.

Mycorrhizal fungi live in the roots of host plants, where they exchange sugars that plants produce by photosynthesis for mineral nutrients that fungi absorb from the soil.

Monitoring chlorophyll and how photosynthesis is performed in a plant provides insight into the health and growth of the plants.

In the most recent (December 2003) issue of Progress in Oceanography, researchers suggest this whopping increase was caused by a sudden influx of dead algae rich in carotenoids, pigments used by some plants for photosynthesis.

Jansen says drought stress causes bubbles of gas to be brought into plants» water transport tubes, which blocks water from reaching leaves and in turn halts the food - creating process of photosynthesis.

That's a key question because through photosynthesis, land plants currently take up about a quarter of the CO2 humans add to the atmosphere each year, sequestering it as wood and as soil carbon.

SeaWiFS, on board the OrbView 2 (aka SeaStar) satellite measures the wavelengths of light reflected by phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants) and algae that use chlorophyll for photosynthesis.

The researchers were surprised to learn that this speeding - up of carbon uptake during periods of slower warming was due mainly to less respiration from plants and not to greater photosynthesis.

To turn carbon dioxide into sugar via photosynthesis, plants need a lot of water.

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.

This was achieved by increasing the brightness of the lights over the plants, increasing the rate of photosynthesis.

«For each carbon dioxide molecule that is incorporated into plants through photosynthesis, plants lose about 200 hundred molecules of water through their stomata,» explains Julian Schroeder, a professor of biology who headed the research effort.

Chloroplast, the compartment responsible for plant photosynthesis, is a key component of this signaling pathway.

In a new study on the Pacific Coast, Nyssa Silbiger, former UCI postdoctoral researcher, and Cascade Sorte, assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology, determined that marine plants and seaweeds decrease the acidity of their surroundings through photosynthesis.

Think of it as an artificial photosynthesis process similar to the way plants convert carbon dioxide and sunlight into food.

These findings show that the evolutionary step of loss of photosynthesis is not simply a loss of functions through loss of chloroplast: it dramatically changes the plant's relationship with other organisms.