Sentences with phrase «plants absorb sunlight»

Phytochemicals in plants absorb sunlight giving them their rich colors and vibrant flavors.

Plants absorb sunlight, convert it through the process of photosynthesis, and store it as chemical energy.

Scientists have in the past focused on above - ground characteristics, primarily leaf traits and the efficiency with which plants absorb sunlight for photosynthesis, he said.

Not exact matches

Chloroplasts absorb sunlight and use it in conjunction with water and carbon dioxide gas to produce food for the plant.

The imaging system detects fluorescence emitted from chlorophyll, a pigment that gives plants their green color and is essential for absorbing the sunlight plants use to create energy through photosynthesis.

On a bright, sunny day, a plant might only be able to utilize 20 percent or less of absorbed sunlight.

Under full sunlight, the energy from excess absorbed photons is intentionally dissipated by the plant as heat.

The plant immediately struck Muir (a distant relative of famed naturalist John Muir) as odd because plants need to maximize surface area to absorb as much sunlight as possible.

The weak but nevertheless detectable SIF signal emerges naturally on sunlight - exposed leaves, when chlorophyll molecules are excited by absorbed photons, and is a proxy for plant photosynthesis.

The smoke from vast fires started by bombs dropped on cities and industrial areas would envelop the planet and absorb so much sunlight that the earth's surface would get cold, dark and dry, killing plants worldwide and eliminating our food supply.

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.

The ozone layer acts as Earth's sunscreen by absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation from incoming sunlight that can cause skin cancer and damage plants, among other harmful effects to life on Earth.

It is naturally present in air and is absorbed by plants in photosynthesis, a chemical reaction that turns sunlight into food.

Now, engineers from Sandia National Laboratories are improving the efficiency of smaller plants, designing a new receiver that can absorb much more sunlight.

Like terrestrial plants, phytoplankton contain light - absorbing chlorophyll and need sunlight to live and grow.

This is because of a green - colored chemical called chlorophyll, the chemical that lets plants absorb useful energy from sunlight.

How much sunlight is absorbed by the corn plants needed to manufacture one joule's worth of ethanol, for example, compared to the amount of sunlight a solar panel needs to generate one joule of electricity?

Retired teacher notices that plants are dying from lack of sunlight, absorbed by cancer - causing solar farms

Don't even mention CAM plants (pineapples, Aloe's and probably the majority of weed species)-- yet the CAM pathway plant absorbs CO2 at night without sunlight.

Human knowledge is accelerating in an exponential fashion, and between the ability to change the carbon dioxide absorbing capabilities of plants or insects or the ability to reflect sunlight back into space, reducing warming should be a trivial task in a 50 - 100 year time frame, if warming becomes a problem.