Sentences with phrase «stimulates photosynthesis»

Climate change has generally proved beneficial to trees because warmer temperatures stimulate photosynthesis and extend the growing season, and both rural and urban trees grew faster by up to 17 % after 1960.

Yu and his colleagues aren't certain how this is happening, but the mutation that enabled ethylene production has also stimulated photosynthesis.

The authors speculated, tentatively, that the observation might reflect a light scattering effect of GCRs, perhaps related to cloudiness, that stimulated photosynthesis.

Not exact matches

Laboratory and field studies have shown that elevated carbon dioxide concentrations stimulate Emiliania huxleyi's photosynthesis, but its calcification and growth is impaired.

Eventually, however, terrestrial red and green algae and the first lichens developed on land and the final big rise in oxygen may have been caused by the «greening of the continents from around 800 million years ago,» when these simple early lifeforms on land steadily spread and broke down rocks that sustained a higher rate of erosion and led to the release of more nutrients into the oceans that stimulated even more photosynthesis by more newly evolved algae as well as older cyanobacteria (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010).

This indicates that replacing missing iron back into the ocean could stimulate phytoplankton based photosynthesis and generate improvements to the ocean ecosystem, while removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it is consumed by photosynthesis.

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.