Sentences with phrase «photosynthetic apparatus»

Even when studying agriculture in South Africa, he had been attracted by the science of crop protection, and his Ph.D. research on electron transport in photosynthesis was highly relevant to the industry: «Herbicides are specifically developed to work against the photosynthetic apparatus,» he explains.

Just as oxygen can rust iron that makes up a horseshoe or frying pan, it can damage the iron - and - sulfur proteins of the photosynthetic apparatus.

The team was able to figure out that at least one aspect of CGL71's job is to protect the photosynthetic apparatus from oxygen during its assembly.

New work from a team including Carnegie's Mark Heinnickel, Wenqiang Yang, and Arthur Grossman identified a protein needed for assembling the photosynthetic apparatus that may help us understand the history of photosynthesis back in the early days of life on Earth, a time when oxygen was not abundant in the atmosphere.

«When we look at this critical assembly protein, CGL71, it's as if we are looking back in time to the era when photosynthetic apparatus had to gradually adjust to the changing atmospheric conditions of our planet,» Grossman said.

If phototrophs keep their photosynthetic apparatus for landing, the red - edge position of the land surface on M - dwarf planets show just like as on the Earth, at the initial stage of land vegetation.

Chloroplasts alone absorb light only from the visible portion of the solar spectrum, allowing access to only about 50 % of the incident solar energy radiation, and less than 10 % of full sunlight saturates the capacity of the photosynthetic apparatus.