Sentences with phrase «while photosynthesis»

This respiration is related to metabolic processes that keep the cell alive while photosynthesis occurs.

While the photosynthesis is more efficient, the plants themselves grew significantly slower.

They will provide a glimpse into real biology so children (and adults) can see that while photosynthesis may be a familiar beginning, plant biology research certainly goes much further than that.

«While photosynthesis is extremely good at oxidizing water, the truth is many man - made processes of doing these things are not that good,» said Thomas Jaramillo, a researcher at the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis in Stanford University's Department of Chemical Engineering.

Not exact matches

Researchers found that while the rate of photosynthesis was constant among trees on plots unaffected by drought, rates on the six drought - affected plots dropped significantly (as compared with before the 2010 drought).

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.

On the Earth, red - edge appears between red and infrared (IR) wavelengths, since red - light is absorbed for photosynthesis while IR radiation is reflected.

The system is unique because it allows the algae to simultaneously do photosynthesis like a plant while also «eating» carbon and respiring like an animal, said Beyenal.

They are the first known organisms to derive energy by photosynthesis while living in an environment naturally devoid of sunlight.

Engineered plants conserve 25 percent more water by only partially opening their mouth - like stomata, allowing less water to escape through transpiration while carbon dioxide enters the plant to fuel photosynthesis.

Plants thus have to rapidly adjust photosynthesis to maximize energy capture while preventing excess energy from causing damage.

Scientists assumed leaves at the top of a plant would be the best at turning higher levels of light into carbohydrates — through the process of photosynthesis — while the lower shaded leaves would be better at processing the low light levels that penetrate the plant's canopy of leaves.

They found both models showed a general feeding structure throughout the plankton food web: The smallest organisms were too small to ingest prey, while the largest plankton were poor competitors when living by photosynthesis.

Lead author Nigel D'Souza, then a postdoctoral researcher at Lamont, discovered the phytoplankton response to oil seeps while on a ship in the Gulf of Mexico monitoring chlorophyll fluorescence — energy that is emitted as light by compounds inside phytoplankton cells used for photosynthesis.

Titanium is not an essential nutrient for plants, Raliya says, but boosts light absorption by increasing chlorophyll content in the leaves and promotes photosynthesis, properties Biswas» lab discovered while creating solar cells.

While the improved organisms excel at photosynthesis in a lab setting, they're ill prepared to compete with other bacteria.

While biology and chemistry control the growth of the blooms, it is ocean circulation that unites the nutrients with sunlight to facilitate photosynthesis, said Weisberg.

Many plants use a group of chemicals called sinapate esters to defend against the sun while they absorb light for photosynthesis.

Phytoplankton are tiny organisms that are critical in offsetting climate change because they undergo a process called photosynthesis, whereby they absorb large enough amounts of heat - trapping carbon dioxide to cool Earth's warming environment while releasing much of oxygen we breathe.

Within the context of artificial photosynthesis, membranes are desired that facilitate the ion transport necessary to feed the electrochemical reactions while meeting various additional selectivity and permeability demands depending on the CO2 reduction products.

While the algal rubisco makes the photosynthesis more efficient, the tobacco plant wasn't completely engineered to mimic the whole process the bacteria use.

[8] The fungi help the plants gain water and mineral nutrients from the soil, while the plant gives the fungi carbohydrates manufactured in photosynthesis.

The idea that you could ever replace the rate of utilization of energy from fossil fuels, which has been estimated as consuming 400 years worth of photosynthesis per year, with a fraction of the annual photosynthetic harvest that does not impinge on food production is part of today's magical thinking, along with reducing deficits by cutting taxes while continuing to increase spending.

Some may say that there is no such solution, but why is it that we refuse to look at how nature of millions of years has flourished, by autotrophic life creating organic matter, by using photosynthesis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, while heterotrophic life takes this organic matter to release the energy it needs and return the oxygen and hydrogen back to water.

Instead, ocean life absorbs CO2 during photosynthesis and, while most of the gas escapes within about a year, some of it is transported down into the deep ocean via dead plants, body parts, faeces, and other sinking materials.

While it takes anywhere from months to decades for plants to sequester carbon through photosynthesis, combustion and release of carbon's combustion product, carbon dioxide, happens in seconds.

«If we can directly store solar energy as a chemical fuel, like what nature does with photosynthesis, we could solve a fundamental challenge of renewable energy,» says Zetian Mi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan who led the research while at McGill University.

While 50 % of the sequestered carbon formed during photosynthesis is respired before sinking into the dark depths, a tremendous pool of dissolved organic carbon has been created that may not be respired for decades, centuries or millennia and slowly contributes to the pool of DIC at various depths and locations (Giorgiou 2002).

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.

Vaughan Pratt — if I understand your objections above you assert that forest can increase photosynthesis while they decrease transpiration.

High irradiance can damage the corals» symbiotic algae when photosynthesis runs too rapidly, while low irradiance detrimentally reduces photosynthetic output.

While the process most closely resembles artificial photosynthesis, Lewis» solar fuel device won't resemble a leaf.

While plants do need carbon dioxide to support photosynthesis, carbon dioxide levels are just one factor in their growth.

While lots of carbon cycles in and out of the atmosphere from photosynthesis and decay (most of that 95 % figure), the planet has a (comparably) very slow rate of removing carbon from the atmosphere and oceans for geological timescales — only enough to roughly cancel out volcanoes and other proportionally very small «old carbon» sources.

While extreme changes in temperature may decrease photosynthesis and phytoplankton reproduction, slighter temperature increase may actually improve photosynthesis,» he explains.

«Through our joint R&D efforts with Philips, we continue to innovate and perfect LED lighting for indoor growing systems that can maximize plant photosynthesis, while minimizing energy use for the most delicious and nutritious vegetables grown in a sustainable manner,» said Robert Colangelo, founding farmer / president of Green Sense Farms.

While it shares a similar growing season, switchgrass is much less efficient at photosynthesis; Miscanthus has a conversion efficiency of around 1 % (1 % of sunlight gets turned into biomass).

While the scientific challenges of producing such fuels are considerable, JCAP will capitalize on state - of - the - art capabilities developed during its initial five years of research, including sophisticated characterization tools and unique automated high - throughput experimentation that can quickly make and screen large libraries of materials to identify components for artificial photosynthesis systems.

Simply speaking, volcanoes helped form the atmosphere while living organisms have helped shape the atmosphere to their liking in two ways: firstly by warming the planet to a liveable temperature by producing methane and carbon dioxide during the process of decay of dead matter, and secondly by creating oxygen through the process of photosynthesis by our green friends in the plant kingdom.