Balancing nitrogen use is critical for maximizing crop yield while minimizing environmental and economic costs.

The most important chemical equation in the world is the following: carbon dioxide plus water plus energy from sun equals sugar plus oxygen (6 CO2) + (6 H20) + (674 calories) = (C6H1206) + (6 02).

The energy that plants capture from sunlight through photosynthesis provides the source of nearly all of humanity's food. Yet the process of photosynthesis has inefficiencies that limit crop ...

Carnivorous plants of the genus Pinguicula (butterworts) from Mexico apparently use the same water-saving photosynthesis type as many succulent plants, such as cacti. Botanists from the SNSB and LMU ...

IISc and Caltech decode photosynthesis’s first step Electrons move only through the D1 branch in PSII Energy barrier blocks flow in the D2 branch ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Caltech have finally solved a decades-old mystery about how photosynthesis really begins. They discovered why energy inside plants flows down ...

The evolution of intelligent life around red dwarf stars is likely to be an uphill slog, due to the demands needed to jumpstart oxygenic photosynthesis. Given that red M-dwarf stars are by far the ...

Artificial photosynthesis may be closer than you think. Scientists at the University of Basel have developed a molecule that can store four charges from light, speeding up the quest for carbon-neutral ...

Scientists at IISc and Caltech have cracked a puzzle at the heart of photosynthesis: why the vital flow of electrons starts through only one side of a perfectly symmetrical protein complex. Credit: ...

Carbon dioxide levels are at a historic high, and the need for carbon capture solutions is growing urgent. Industrial sectors, transportation, and energy production continue to pump CO2 into the ...