News tagged with photosynthetic cells
Researchers study ocean plant cell adaptation in climate change
Apr 15, 2009 |
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How will plant cells that live in the oceans and serve as the basic food supply for many of the world's sea creatures react to climate change?
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'Safety valve' protects photosynthesis from too much light
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Photosynthetic organisms need to cope with a wide range of light intensities, which can change over timescales of seconds to minutes. Too much light can damage the photosynthetic machinery and cause cell death. Scientists ...
How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth?
Dec 01, 2009 |
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To Charles Darwin it was an 'abominable mystery' and it is a question which has continued to vex evolutionists to this day: when did flowering plants evolve and how did they come to dominate plant life on earth? Today a study ...
Researchers harness the power of bacteria
Aug 22, 2006 |
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Looking for alternatives to world reliance on fossil fuels for energy, an interdisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers is studying ways to generate electricity by feeding a species of photosynthetic ...
Newly solved structure reveals how cells resist oxygen damage
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Oct 15, 2007 |
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The sun’s rays give life, but also take it away. Singlet oxygen, a byproduct of the photosynthetic process by which certain cells convert sunlight into energy, is a highly toxic and reactive substance that ...
A study proposes a new universal rule to explain the equilibrium of plant populations
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Sep 18, 2007 |
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A study financed by the BBVA Foundation and conducted by scientists Carlos Duarte, Nuria Agustì and Nuria Marbà from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (CSIC – University of the Balearic Islands) has allowed ...
Plugging in Molecular Wires
Feb 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are masters of everything to do with solar energy because they are able to almost completely transform captured sunlight into chemical energy. This is in ...
New twist on life's power source
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Mar 11, 2008 |
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A startling discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution puts a new twist on photosynthesis, arguably the most important biological process on Earth. Photosynthesis by plants, algae, and some bacteria supports nearly ...
Variable light illuminates the distribution of picophytoplankton
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Dec 19, 2007 |
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Tiny photosynthetic plankton less than a millionth of a millimeter in diameter numerically dominate marine phytoplankton. Their photosynthesis uses light to drive carbon dioxide uptake, fueling the marine food web over vast ...
Tiny polyps need 2 kinds of carbon to survive coral bleaching
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Mar 04, 2008 |
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How well ocean reefs recover from the growing damage caused by warming sea temperatures depends both on how much the tiny coral polyps can eat, and how healthy they can keep the microscopic algae that live ...
Catalyst for water oxidation adopted from plants: a means for energy-efficient production of hydrogen?
Aug 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen will be one of the most important fuels of the future. It would be ideal to obtain hydrogen by splitting water instead of from petroleum. However, the electrolysis of water is a very ...
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