photosynthesis
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Promising Plant Sciences Breakthrough Could Lead To Photosynthesis 2.0
By solving a complex protein structure, biologists have unlocked a critical mechanism in plants that could lead to improvements in how photosynthesis works, and by consequence, greater crop yields.
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Fool’s Gold Suggests Ancient Life In ‘Oxygen Oases’ Far Before There Was Atmospheric Oxygen
You wouldn’t survive a stint on the hellish early Earth that existed between 2.5 billion and four billion years ago. There was almost no breathable free oxygen, for one thing. But scientists may have located an ancient oxygen oasis that existed prior to whatever event first oxygenated our atmosphere.
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Freaky Blue Leaves Allow Plants To Thrive In Shade
When it comes to converting sunlight into food, plants overwhelming prefer the colour green. However, new research shows that at least one particular shrub defies this convention, sprouting blue leaves that do a remarkably good job of capturing sunlight when there’s very little to go around.
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Scientists Are Reinventing Photosynthesis To Grow More Food
What if we could grow rice and wheat with the same amount of water and fertiliser but end up with 50 per cent more food? Sound like magic? Bad accounting? No, just some chemistry and genetic engineering. Scientists have recently figured out the second of three steps to make photosynthesis a whole lot more efficient…