Amazing but inefficient plants Today, at Michigan State University, Walker wants to understand the intricate details of how photosynthesis works, with the ultimate aim of improving it.

The benefits of photosynthesis are manifold. By that process, we breathe life-sustaining oxygen, eat a variety of foods, use wood for construction and, after flora die, make the most of enriched soil.

Photosynthesis works by using energy from the sun's light to power a reaction between CO2 and water inside the plants' leaves, converting them to oxygen and sugars that sustain the plant.

Photosynthesis and cellular respiration may seem as simple as some slight-of-hand, but those amazing tricks are the result of super-efficient processes that plants are doing all the time.

Photosynthesis Starts With A Single Photon, Incredible Breakthrough Reveals A new experiment has revealed how this fundamental process takes place.

Photosynthesis is the starting point for almost every food chain, sustaining most life on Earth. You would be forgiven, then, for thinking nature has perfected the art of turning sunlight into ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how genetic drivers influence the evolution of a specific photosynthesis mechanism in Tillandsia (air plants). This sheds light on the ...

That's not altogether different from a common strategy used by scientists who are working to better understand how photosynthesis works, including the researchers led by Christoph Benning at ...

To understand how big this is, it helps to know how photosynthesis works. Plants use chlorophyll, a pigment that acts like tiny solar panels, to absorb sunlight.

That's not altogether different from a common strategy used by scientists who are working to better understand how photosynthesis works, including the researchers led by Christoph Benning at ...

A research team from the University of Basel, Switzerland, has developed a new molecule modeled on plant photosynthesis: ...

Tillandsia fasciculata is one of the study species of this work. It performs an alternative form of photosynthesis called CAM, which allows it to survive as an epiphyte in water limiting conditions.