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'Safety valve' protects photosynthesis from excess light

Münster :: Germany | 5 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Safety valve' protects photosynthesis from excess light Washington, November 26 : A team of scientists has found that specific proteins in algae can act as a safety valve to dissipate excess absorbed light energy before it can wreak havoc in cells. ...

Tags: light energy, absorbed light, light levels, safety valve, Germany, Münster, Environment, Agronomy, Photosynthesis, Plant physiology, Microbiology, Chloroflexus aurantiacus, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Microorganism, Algae

Maths model reveals reason behind a long leaf's characteristic shape

Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 7 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The simple cause of the lily�s fan-like shape�elastic relaxation resulting from bending during differential growth�was revealed by using an equally simple technique, stretching foam ribbons...Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, were...

Tags: long leaf, L. Mahadevan, characteristic shape, foam ribbon, maths model, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Plant physiology, plant morphology, Hosta, Plantain, Plasticity, Plant anatomy, Leaf, Photosynthesis

Did All Life Originate From A Proton-Powered Rock?

New York :: NY :: USA | 13 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

At one time everyone assumed that cells got their energy using straightforward chemical reactions. However, Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Mitchell argued, correctly, that life is powered not by the kind of chemistry that goes on in a test tube but...

Tags: New York, Plant physiology, Membrane biology, Electrochemical gradient, Photosynthesis, Hydrogen, Cellular respiration, Metabolism, Electrochemistry, Human Interest

Three Reasons the World Will Soon End: Reason 1

Posted by: snial  | 

San Jose :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 2

There are three things that will lead to the deaths of millions of people, the potential war over food, a mass extinction of several hundred species, and a complete change of the layout of the world's ecological structure. These catastrophes are predicted...

Tags: Rubsico, Africa, China, Plants, CAM, C3, C4, photosynthesis

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