Sentences with phrase «photosynthetic machinery»
The phrase "photosynthetic machinery" refers to the structures and processes within a plant that allow it to perform photosynthesis. This machinery includes chloroplasts, which contain chlorophyll and convert sunlight into energy, as well as other components involved in capturing and converting carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen. Overall, it describes how plants harness light energy to produce their own food. Full definition
«If we are able to leverage technologies like genetic engineering to enhance stability of the plant photosynthetic machineries, I'm very hopeful that this technology will be competitive to traditional solar panels in the future.»
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When deciduous trees prepare for their seasonal cold dormancy they partially recycle important elemental components of chlorophyll and the associated photosynthetic machinery, such as nitrogen, phosphorous and magnesium.
Over time, the bacteria lost the ability to live independently of the fern, but their photosynthetic machinery increased its nitrogen - fixing capability by a factor of between 12 and 20.
Grossman and his team — led by Carnegie's Dimitri Tolleter and in collaboration with John Pringle and Steve Palumbi of Stanford University — demonstrated that bleaching still occurs if the algae are heat stressed in the dark, when the photosynthetic machinery is shut off.
Plants and algae, as well as certain fungi and bacteria, also synthesize carotenoids, and in all of these organisms the pigments form part of the photosynthetic machinery.
PYP is a receptor for blue light that is part of the photosynthetic machinery in certain bacteria.
«This suggests that the light use efficiency of lettuce and pothos was limited by a process other than conversion into heat, likely light - induced damage to the photosynthetic machinery in the leaves,» the authors noted.
«The biofeedback system successfully maintained a wide range of ETR values in different species, while it also is capable of distinguishing between conversion of light into heat and damage to the photosynthetic machinery as causes for decreases in light use efficiency,» the authors said.
When there is too much sunlight, the photosynthetic machinery in chloroplasts can be damaged, so plants need photoprotection.
They knew that raising levels of carbon dioxide accelerated the photosynthetic machinery in most crop plants, and they hypothesized that crops would grow faster and yield more, says plant biologist Evan DeLucia of the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign (UIUC).